I'm not one who dismisses vaccines as 100% evil 100% of the time (though you can tell where I'm leaning, since we haven't given any to DD since she was 9 months) so I read this thing with a fairly open mind. I don't just say "puh-leeze" right off the bat.
But, yeah, this pamphlet was pretty thin on facts. The facts they refer to are not logically related to the point they are trying to make.
I mean, yes, babies deal with lots of pathogens every day. But they make it sound like eating lunch is more dangerous than getting a bundle of vaccines, which defies even pro-vax common-sense logic. Lunch is not injected into the bloodstream, it does not bypass the body's systems to identify, process and eliminate toxins. It goes through the digestive system which was built to handle food and (most of) the bacteria that typically inhabit it. That's a far cry from injecting live or dead virii into our bloodstream.
Also the rest is just... thin. "Before a new vaccine can be licensed by the Food and
Drug Administration (FDA), it must first be tested by something
called ‘concomitant use studies.’" Well, that sounds all high and miighty, right? Big word, there, "concomitant." Well, sorry, I'm not really reassured. Obviously I expect a study before being released, but this doesn't tell me anything about how good the study was. How long? How many subjects? What species subject? If human, what demographics? What were the criteria? Did we have a REAL control group? etc etc etc. You can't just shut my questions up by saying "oh, don't worry, we did something called a concomitant use study."
But, yeah, this pamphlet was pretty thin on facts. The facts they refer to are not logically related to the point they are trying to make.
I mean, yes, babies deal with lots of pathogens every day. But they make it sound like eating lunch is more dangerous than getting a bundle of vaccines, which defies even pro-vax common-sense logic. Lunch is not injected into the bloodstream, it does not bypass the body's systems to identify, process and eliminate toxins. It goes through the digestive system which was built to handle food and (most of) the bacteria that typically inhabit it. That's a far cry from injecting live or dead virii into our bloodstream.
Also the rest is just... thin. "Before a new vaccine can be licensed by the Food and
Drug Administration (FDA), it must first be tested by something
called ‘concomitant use studies.’" Well, that sounds all high and miighty, right? Big word, there, "concomitant." Well, sorry, I'm not really reassured. Obviously I expect a study before being released, but this doesn't tell me anything about how good the study was. How long? How many subjects? What species subject? If human, what demographics? What were the criteria? Did we have a REAL control group? etc etc etc. You can't just shut my questions up by saying "oh, don't worry, we did something called a concomitant use study."
