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Why is there a push against vaccines? Is it paranoia, propaganda fears that it turns you into a slave or do they just want to make sure the healthcare system ma
by b3ing 10mo ago
Why is there a push against vaccines? Is it paranoia, propaganda fears that it turns you into a slave or do they just want to make sure the healthcare system makes more money?
- _aavaa_ 10mo agoLikely it’s all of the above. The original fake study published by Wakefield to push a link between vaccines and autism was directly benefiting him financially through undisclosed interests in a competing vaccine.
- lolc 10mo agoI think the main reason is the people who experienced the time before vaccines are dead. Vaccines were always scary but back then the people could see that they prevented bad outcomes. My grandmother grew up with kids crippled by the polio epidemic! People today just don't know anymore how scary measles is. We lost that knowledge thanks to the success of vaccines!
- JojoFatsani 10mo agoYup the technical term is survivorship bias.
- gus_massa 10mo agoYep. My late father was recruited to vaccinate people in the big polio epidemic in Argentina, probably in 1956. He was still in high school, but it was the oral vaccine and they needed all hands available.