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Not really. "Safe" is a feeling. Unless you define it in some study as a % risk of something bad happening, it is not defined. It is similar to saying that 41 p
by njarboe 8y ago
Not really. "Safe" is a feeling. Unless you define it in some study as a % risk of something bad happening, it is not defined. It is similar to saying that 41 percent of those surveyed felt some uneasiness about taking vaccines. That does not seem really astonishing.
One should be a bit nervous when putting things in your body that are strange enough to change your immune system. Doesn't mean you shouldn't get over those feeling and get you and your kids vaccinated. Maybe this anti-vax movement is largely sustained by the "follow you feelings, reason will fool you" philosophy that seems to be ascendant at the moment.
- ajmurmann 8y agoThe anti-vax movement as well as some of the things going on around genetically modified good or even just plain old organic foods frequently remind me of the anti-vax technology couple that Pirsig starts his motorcycle trip with in "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance". There are so many things all around us that most people don't understand and people are overwhelmed and tired from it resulting in this somewhat delusional pushback against modernity. We are building nostalgia and longing for a past that never existed because we don't want to have modernity which also isn't as esthetically pleasing as the made up, idyllically past.