[Egon]

Those people who don't vaccinate are the reason we still have these diseases affecting our society.

This supposition is inaccurate. Most vaccinations are not permanent.

Instead of simply repeating the party line, try doing some research and come to your own conclusions.

Most people who question the safety of vaccinating are not trying to get rid of the practice altogether, they simply want the medical community to look into making the process safer. If there was absolute safety in vaccinations, why have they recently removed mercury-based components from them?

Right now the medical community has many more reasons to NOT want to investigate this, than they have to actually look into it. Follow the money.

Why is this such a problem for some of you guys to understand? After all, we're not discussing this on DU, where the majority of the blind sheeple hang out.

[Orgiveme]

Why is this such a problem for some of you guys to understand? After all, we're not discussing this on DU, where the majority of the blind sheeple hang out.

I'm still working my way through the thread post by post, but here's my response to the above:

There are alternatives to conventional (allopathic) medicine, but people are uninformed or even disinformed about those alternatives, and it takes a certain amount of negative personal experience with the conventionalist approach and/or some background in the field. Given one or both of those (both in my own case) you gain the incentive to even begin questioning this part of the hierarchy of misplaced trust by people raised in our society.

This is a sad example, among many, of learning stuff the hard way. Even then, you have to begin to even consider questioning the validity of the approach being used on you (look at all the slash-and-burn patients in the cancer treatment system, frinstance) before you can begin to get the connections.

This is a perfect illustration of: There are none so blind as those who WILL NOT see. It's a matter of the will.

One of my favorites: Where there's a will, there's a way.

[SouthernFreebird]

Explain to me then why boys are more likely to develop Autism from a vaccine?

[fooman]

DTP was replaced with DTaP after there many many reactions.

Reagan started the vaccine trust fund due to all the lawsuits.

[ArGee]

After all, we're not discussing this on DU, where the majority of the blind sheeple hang out.

Don't be mistaken. FReepers have their sacred cows as well. One of them is quite clear: Progress = good. Congress = bad.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. ;)

Shalom.