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In reply to the discussion: If you don't vaccinate your children. [View all]Ms. Toad
(34,268 posts)There are questions surrounding vaccinations which are not.
The basic mechanisms by which vaccines work are settled. The concept of herd immunity is well understood, and parameters reasonably well defined. In most people, vaccines create immunity (although it is not - as many represent - identical to what happens when you are exposed to the disease). In most people, vaccines are relatively harmless. One of the things that is not well understood yet is the population for which vaccines are not relatively harmless.
The fact that you believe there are only two sides of the vaccine issue is partly the product of individuals like you, and the OP, who stomp your feet and call anyone an idiot or lunatic who has done enough research and independent analysis to understand there is more to the picture - and that they (or their children) are likely to be in the population for which vaccines are not relatively harmless.
Educate yourself, for example, about auto-immune disorders, disease etiology, and the use of adjuvants in vaccines.
That is just the example I am most well versed in, because it is the one that impacts my family.
The use of vaccines is not a binary issue - and your insistence that it is (and that only idiots are on the other side) suggests to me that you are seriously ignorant about the complexity of the human immune system.