Robert F Kennedy Jr compares childhood vaccines to Nazi Death Camps...

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126. Uh huh...

But the vaccine industry rules over so many aspects of American and British life, so that when tens of thousand of parents of children who were perfectly normal and who ahd reached every developmental point exactly on time, yet once a certain vaccine or set of vaccines was concluded, these parents who watched their kids immediately and as a direct response tot he shot(s) begin to convulse, scream, become diarrhetic and having the diarrhea last for days, and then autism descended, our government suddenly adopted the "that is a mere anecdotal experience and doesn't count.'

One, prove that it happened. The problem with anecdotal evidence is this; "My son got diarrhea after he got a vaccine." or "after her vaccine, my 13 year old girl started being very argumentative and unresponsive!" As if the only thing in the world that could explain a bad case of the runs is the vaccine? As if the vaccine somehow turned a 13 year old into a snarky asshat? They're usually such doting sweethearts!

There's also the problem there's no rhyme or reason. It's all "random bad things," even from identical shots. Going into convulsions is a very different reaction to catching a case of the runs. You inject a toxin into someone, and it will have about the same effect every time. It's reliable. It's one way of diagnosing poison exposure, because toxin A has a different effect than Toxin F, and both behave consistently.

What it looks like is parents arbitrarily linking something to the vaccination. Their son has an undercooked burger, oh, the vaccine gave him the shits. The parent suddenly realizes their teenager is a teenager, oh no,the shot must have done it.



Two, prove that it was linked to the vaccine. Reactions tend to be acute and fairly immediate. There's a reason they ask if you have allergies, after all. There's also the fact that the whole point of a vaccine is to trigger your body's immune system which, let's face it, is no fucking fun at all. And yes, that can be dangerous, leading to dehydration and high fevers. Nobody's ever said that there are no risks. But...



Three, expound on what magical,substance can cause this life-shattering reaction with one injection. This is the real trouble, because there isn't one. Anti-vaccers imagine some mystical witches brew of eeeeeevil compounds that when mixed juuuuust right, have all these random bad effects... Unfortunately this isn't the case; even if it were, the results would be regular and consistent, as I've just noted. Instead you get random and weird. Again it's not that there are no risks, but if we're talking chemicals, the major concern is exposure... and one injection of something, unless it's something super-scary, just isn't going to do anything. Long term exposure is what does it, and even then, it can be years and years for it to add up. Do you have any idea how much arsenic is in your water? More than you'd be comfortable with, I assure you. And you're chucking that down your gullet with regularity, and you think an injection is going to magically transform your child into a werewolf?

Which brings me to the main problem... Most anti-vaccers are caareer idiots. And I don't say that just to be insulting, but because they fucking are. They believe in black helicopters, homeopathy, and contacting deceased pets through seances. They're what is termed "magical thinkers," where everything that happens in the world is the result of direct agency, and wild intuitive leaps are exactly as valid as studied reasoning.

All the stuff above? The random bad effects, the assumption of grand conspiracies, and the belief that a single injection of some substance can magically - yes, magically - re-engineer a personality overnight? it's bullshit, and it's bullshit nobody believed until Andrew Wakefield and Jenny McCarthy joined forces.

While you're waving your torches and pitchforks about the "vaccine industry" and how evil it is, please to realize your entire argument is based on the claims of a man who faked research and launched a media scare campaign specifically to turn the public against a competing vaccine, enabling him to (in his imagination) command that market, and a former playmate whose knowledge of medicine seems to stretch only so far as eating flintstones chewables and buying dollar store magnet bracelets.