How many books have you read from “anti-vax” writers? Or are you just ranting about something when you have NO idea what the other side says, and you have formed a firm opinion without without due investigation.
“Whale.to is not a valid scientific site and has no legitimate information about vaccine safety. “
So are you alleging the deaths cited there from the Salk vaccine are false, or that you just don’t care if people die? Are you also suggesting that Black_Agnes is lying about the people she knew who got severely ill?
Of course it is not a “scientific cite” is quotes medical journals, government reports and doctors. Are you denying all those quotes and references? Try this one from the British Medical Journal http://www.bmj.com/content/2/4669
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“The statistics collected in this inquiry reveal clearly an association between recent injections and paralysis . . . We must conclude that in the 1949 epidemic of poliomyelitis in this country, cases of paralysis were occurring which were associated with inoculation procedures carried out within the month preceding the record date of onset of the illness . . .” (Reported in the British Medical Journal, July 1, 1950)
It also references Lancet and other science/medical journals, or are you denying those are science journals?
The problem with whale.to and its ilk are that they “cherry pick” from real scientific literature in order to “prove” whatever their anti-vax screed is saying. They take facts out of context. For instance, exaggerating the rare side effects of a vaccine while downplaying the real danger of the disease it causes. For example, vaccine-related paralytic poliomyelitis occurs in about 5 per one million vaccinees, but 1 out of 200 polio victims becomes disabled—meaning that the wild disease is 1,000 times as likely to have a bad outcome than the live attenuated vaccine. The killed vaccine, of course, cannot cause any polio-like disease.
There are not two equal sides on this. There is the one side that does the research, gathers data, analyzes and publishes it, and compiles the data to come up with the best evidence-based practices and recommendations. Then there is the side that will say anything, flavors lies with a touch of facts, does no research, and does its best to convince people not to use vaccines. Since vaccines are responsible for saving hundreds of millions of lives and are one of the biggest factors in our current long life expectancy, the only possible conclusion is that the anti-vax advocates like those over at whale.to want people to die prematurely.