Are we all really this STUPID?!?!?!?

Question

This is in no way meant to be offensive to anyone - the very first person in the attached article actually admits that she has no faith, but LIES and claims she does so her son want have to get vaccinated...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071017/ap_on_re_us/vaccine_skeptics

Are we, as a society, really that stupid and lame brained?? Studies have PROVEN that there is no link between early vaccines and autism - yet ancedotal evidence is enough to make people believe that the risk associated with your child DYING when they catch the measles is better than the "risk" of vaccinating your children??


I am so glad I have no children currently, as I would hate to send them to school with other kids that are potential disease carriers...

Answer 1

I haven't done enough research on this yet to make up my mind, but a June survey of more than 10,000 families found teenage boys vaccinated as children were:

--Twice as likely to suffer from autism

--Four times as likely to have Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

--And boys and girls of all ages - vaccinated as children - were more than twice as likely to have developed asthma.

It's worth looking into....and at the very least worth allowing individuals to make that personal choice. Don't you think? (By the way, hope you are feeling better...ironically).

Answer 2

If your kid is at school, and your kid is vaccinated, then, according to your theory, your kid has zero risk of catching anything from the un-vaccinated kid.

Nice theory, but it actually doesn't work out that way. Most vaccines don't provide immunity - they simply don't take and are ineffective. Real immunity comes from exposure to the real thing. This was proven at some college a few years back and I'm sorry but I can't remember the disease or the exact year. But 80 or 90% were vaccinated, yet almost everyone got sick because the vaccines they recieved didn't work.

Answer 3

I am non-denominational, but I will start a movement that it is against my religion to send my girl to a school that has an outbreak of disease because of loopholes that threaten to take us back to the day that many people lost at least one child to a disease that we now have the ability to control. Many have been taken to court for denying their children medical care that would have saved their lives, and some lost. I say this is the only good reason for "separate, but equal schools." Separate the children of the paranoids from the children of the reasonable. You can't slaughter a lamb in the school yard, no matter what your religion. Why risk our children. I read the stats, and there is risk in every injection or other medical procedure, but you have to go with the numbers. I live by a cemetery, and on my walks you see the number of children who are victims of the polio epidemic of the fifties. Just a few years later, they had a vaccination.

Answer 4

This puts their own kids at risk, and it also puts EVERYONE ELSE's kids at risk. Vaccinations work most of the time, but it is not impossible for a vaccinated person to get a terrible disease if there is an outbreak.

And it's unvaccinated people who cause outbreaks.


The problem here is that we have a loophole in the system. If we did not allow people to do stupid things just because their religions tell them to, then this would be less of a problem.


Edit: Study after study has shown that trace amounts of mercury are *not* harmful. You get more Hg from a tuna fish sandwich than from a vaccine, yet you don't see hysterical parents campaigninig against tuna fish! Also, when the mercury was phased out, we did *not* see a decline in autism.

Ergo, the fearmongering was just that: fearmongering.


Get your little brats vaccinated, people.

Answer 5

when my oldest daughter was born .... there was rumours of a link with the vaccination and epilepsy ( if epilepsy was in the family )
I listened to the rumours and did not get the vaccination for my daughter
since learning more about the vaccination and all the silly rumours that have surfaced during the 16 years since my daughter was born
I feel very very guilty about not getting it done
I done some more research and realised that the risks of children dying without being inoculated are far far greater than any slim change of then getting epilepsy or anything else
I am glad that I learned this by the time by other two children were born
I was naive
but that was 16 years ago
people have no excuse these days with all the information that is out there
it is sheer laziness not to research these things when you have children

Answer 6

I find this a major problem. I have two very small kids and still struggle with vaccinations and the fact the state mandates them. However, I can see the benefit to this as well, for obvious reasons. My best friend is a born again Christian as well and she doesnt vaccinate at all, though she homeschools, so her children are not potentially risking hundreds of kids a day with possible disease. For this mother to "work" the system and lie is horrendous and opens other children to her kids. If it i that important she needs to homeschool! It reminds me of the people who don't attend church in retail jobs will say they do just to get a Sunday off. Ive seen it done a few times.

Answer 7

Maybe you shouldn't be so quick to believe everything you read.

The real facts are....it has not been definitively PROVEN there is no link between vaccines and autism.

a recent article came out stating that a study was done, and there is no link....but what was suppressed from the article...which you would know from more indepth research...is that a large number of scientists on that panel have monetary ties to drug manufacturers, and many more of those scientists DISAGREED with the results of the study.

The drug companies really would like to avoid a massive nationwide lawsuit...similar to the tabacco industry....so yeah...with the kind of influence these companies have over the media companies...you and I are probably never going to get the real truth in articles that appear on the front of yahoos and MSN's...but it is out there if you look hard enough.

early vaccines carried a mercury based chemical....6 years ago, due to public outcries..."they" told us..."well we found that there was no link, you are all wrong" ...yet..they removed the chemical anyway...uhm...isn't that kind of a major red flag right there?

Answer 8

The genioses put mercury in the vacinations. Children got autism. To cover there butts and there pocketbooks they lied.
They are now responsible for the overreaction of parents. They have damaged a very good thing. Because they wanted to save a few bucks in the manufacturing process. So that they could have 3 Mercedes and a Yacht instead of just 2 mercedes and a Yacht.

NO there not stupid at all they know exactly what there doing and if the cost of a lawsuit is cheaper then the cost of the manufacturing process then a few autistic Kids is OK for them.
Goverment studies. The goverments Business is Business. BIG business. YOU have no say you dont decide business decides whats GOOD for you.
My children are vacinated IM not stupid.
YOUR goverment however doesnt give a crap about kids,

Answer 9

most of society is stupid because they choose to listen to the media and believe whatever it and the news says instead of doing research on both sides of the story... as far as this story is concerned i feel that a child should be entitled to an education whether he or she is vaccinated or not. If "your" child does have a vaccine then there is nothing to worry about, but if someone does not want his or her child to be vaccinated then it is not the govt right to say that the child has to. The govt needs to stop acting like it is everyone's parents... and let people make their own adult decisions.

Answer 10

yea it's pretty sad. i would never feign religious conviction to override something. i have a 16 month old that i took to get a checkup and vaccinations recently, one of which was a flu shot. when i told her dad about it he got all weird about it like getting a flu shot was more likely to harm her than the flu itself. yea, i'm sure there are cases in which a kid may have some defects relative to a vaccination but you can't blame all cases on that alone. genetics play a big role in physical and mental issues kids face. another thing that irks the hell out of me, which is kind of on the flip side, is how so many parents and teachers want to pull the ADD/ADHD card and put kids on drugs that they don't need because parents and teachers don't know how to handle phsyically active and hyper children. or kids that they don't recognize are ecellerated learners that are bored. grr i could go on.