What makes you research? - Page 2

[MyLilPwny]

Originally Posted by just_lily

I don't know anyone anywhere who has done a lot of research and done the standard schedule as recommended.

There are people that read "The Vaccine Book" by Dr. Sears (which is a pro-vaccine book) and then think that they are well-researched on vaccines. I personally don't think anyone is well-researched unless they have read many anti-vaccine sources in order to find out the "other" P.O.V.'s. We all need to because we don't know the anti-vaccine side unless we actually seek it out ourselves.

Like for example, my aunt-in-law thinks that she's well-researched in vaccines. She has a Phd degree and spent years "teaching vaccines" to students so she thinks that she knows everything about vaccines, so she vaccinates her son on the standard CDC recommended vaccine schedule, even the flu shots. And when I've tried to explain how bad vaccines are and about how lots of doctors even agree with me, she says yeah there are a lot of "dangerous" people out there, and then she offered to give me a lecture on the "science" behind vaccines.

[Turquesa]

I began as a "mainstream" parent prepared to vax my children fully. Then number of factors inspired me to research vaccines.

1. Like PPs, I learned that the new recommendations/"requirements" included chicken pox and Hep B. Both seemed suspiciously unnecessary to me.

2. I read about the vaxes in peer-reviewed journals but later learned about the crass conflicts of interests involved in the "research."

3. I began to wonder why mainstream medicine has, for the most part, refused to appeal to parents' sense of reason and instead resorted to *guilt* and *fear* in order to coerce parents to vaccinate their children. Why the desperation? Why substitute rational discussions with patients for these hardball, emotive tactics? This was probably the biggest motivating factor that got me researching vaccines.

ETA: I really think that vax proponents have pushed their luck with these three factors. They're going to keep pushing and eventually surpass what they can get away with---maybe some ridiculousness like a vax for runny noses. (Why not? There's one for diarrhea!) I'm confident that as a result, more and more Americans will become skeptical.

[Ritske]

Honestly, I hadn't thought about it till an elderly woman told me, close to the end of my second trimester, that I should get the flu shot. I have always thought the whole idea behind the flu shot was stupid, but I hadn't really given any thought to the other vaccines. But that was when I decided I would research before giving any of them to my DD. Much as that lady annoyed me, I'm glad she brought it up because it triggered that train of thought in me.