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> i actually know as many people whose children have had serious reactions to vaccinations as i do parents who children have had serious preventable illnesses.
by zak_mc_kracken 12y ago
> i actually know as many people whose children have had serious reactions to vaccinations as i do parents who children have had serious preventable illnesses.
You're trying to use anecdotal data as data. That's not how science works.
Scientist are way, way ahead of you. Adverse effects are the number one thing that is studied when a new vaccine is being considered for public use. At least in the US (and most of the industrialized world), if a vaccine receives approval for wide use, it's because the statistical risk of adverse effects and the actual adverse effects are completely benign compared to the positive effect that the vaccine will have on the population.
- cam_l 12y agoway to miss the fucking point. go on, read it again.. (or the first time for that matter.) at a certain point with the effectiveness of vaccines, the adverse effects actually start to outnumber the people still being effected. the point at which people start to notice this is perhaps an order of magnitude lower than the reality. science is not how people work, they use anecdata. now, how do you interact with those people? or do you care more about getting all self-righteous and angry?
- Oletros 12y ago. at a certain point with the effectiveness of vaccines, the adverse effects actually start to outnumber the people still being effected Source for that?