You might appreciate this article I came across, sojourner.
http://ucatholic.com/blog/vaccines-an-obligation-or-a-sin/
http://ucatholic.com/blog/vaccines-an-obligation-or-a-sin/
Are Vaccines Today Safe?
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Thanks for the reply. I read that Op/Ed piece. Aside from the fact that there's no documentation offered, there are several stock-in-trade vax falsehoods being reiterated -- traditions that bring death.
Additionally, most folks don't understand what constitutes primary or secondary sources. Since there's no love (read: no God) in Caesar's camp, fear is the master. If a lie is repeated loud enough and often enough, then the fear-full masses will believe it.
If you have a specific item from that piece that you want to look at, then post it here and we'll chat it up.
Well, I've had about a dozen discussions about vaccines with coworkers and family over the past couples of days. I'd prefer to break from it. I just thought I'd post it for you.
Personally, I've never known anyone who has suffered any ill effects from a flu shot. My dad gets them regularly and has never had any adverse effects. I don't get one only because I don't get sick very often. However, I've been vaccinated for all sorts of things from Measles, Mumps & Rubella to Tetanus, TB, Hepatitis, Yellow Fever, etc. I've never had any ill effects either.
The crusade people make against vaccines is ignorant, selfish and rooted entirely in fear and not at all in reality. Either they think their three-day venture into WebMD and Mayo Clinic online somehow makes them more knowledgeable than their doctor who has several years in medical school plus their residency and practice under their belt, or they have some twisted conspiracy theory that vaccines are weapons of the enemy and are going to bring on the apocalypse. Honestly, the conspiracy theory itself sounds more like a weapon of the enemy since he's the one who wants to steal and destroy - logically he would want people to reject vaccines and suffer the consequences.
This is not true at all, and it isn't wise to smear all those people you don't know. Here's what I think about it, and no, I'm not going all over the internet to get all the links:
1. Historically, the incidence of disease was starting to fall before the advent of vaccines, largely due to improved sanitation and nutrition.
2. Medically, vaccines bypass the body's natural immunities and do not offer lifetime immunity, so they require booster shots.
3. Vaccines are often preserved with harmful additives such as thimerosal.
4. There are many, many accounts of people directly harmed by vaccines, sometimes to the point of death.
5. Flu vaccines in particular are useless due to the viruses mutating before the drug is distributed. The measles vaccine is only (possibly) effective on one of over 20 strains, and many of those catching it have been vaccinated more than once.
Again, since you have no data to back up your smear claims against people who oppose forced vaccination, you can't demand data to back up counter-claims. To attribute opposition to forced vaccination to the devil is not only unwise but possibly a rules violation in this board. State your opinion without tearing down people you don't know.
http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/antibody-theory-fatal-flaw-vaccination-agenda/
http://www.dcclothesline.com/2015/02/12/investigative-journalist-sharyl-attkisson-told-vaccines/
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I'm not saying I disagree or agree with your opinion on vaccines, but please try to be respectful of other peoples opinions that are opposites of yours. Saying someone is ignorant will not persuade them.
Let's all keep in mind the second greatest commandment given by Christ, and show love to each other as we discuss the subject of vaccines, so we don't have to shut this thread down.
*goes around name-calling so that this already-miserable thread will die*
So be it, thread closed.*goes around name-calling so that this already-miserable thread will die*
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