Vaccination – A Very Personal Decision. Are You Informed? - Page 2

[kathymuggle]

Originally Posted by littlest birds 

I think our total body of information on vaccine effects is too limited for any of us to be more than partially informed, unfortunately.  Thus everyone's decision is based on some combination of accurate information and guessing or intuition.  Everybody has some basic biases about human health and government and the pharmaceutical industry that influence them from the outset. 

Individual research has its limitations.  I think it is important to learn what you can, but obviously people draw different conclusions from the information we have and have different levels of trust in certain sources.  People have different levels of interest in and ability to analyze the available information as well.   

I completely agree.  

[prosciencemum]

Originally Posted by kathymuggle 

The second group of people who vaccinate are those who have researched the issue and decided to vaccinate.  Most of the pro-vaxxers who argue here fall into this category.  I can see them being ticked off when they are told to "do the research" when they have doubtlessly clocked hundreds of hours researching.

This is exactly why I posted the link. The article in the original post in this thread implies that if you don't "jump off the vaccination" band waggon you must be poorly informed about the risks and benefits of vaccination. I disagree. It is very possible to read the research and understand the risks but still end up at the decision that on balance vaccination is better both for your children, and the community you live in as a whole. :)