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In reply to the discussion: If you don't vaccinate your children. [View all]Ms. Toad
(34,375 posts)Dividing the world into anti-vaxxer idiots and everyone else IS binary thinking. That binary thinking is not coming from the folks you have labeled anti-vaxxers, it is coming from you.
The world, and the immune system in particular, is much more complex than that. It is not a binary question. There are children for whom some vaccines outweigh the risks - and other vaccines don't. Unfortunately, medical science has not yet sorted all that out - but parents can't put their children in suspended animation until it does. So parents of such children have to make the best decisions they can with the evidence available about vaccinating their children. The concerns are based on sound scientific/medical theory but may not yet be supported by evidence that rises to your view of medical necessity.
Educate yourself, for example, about auto-immune disorders, the current disease etiology theories, and the use of adjuvants in vaccines. That is only one example, the one with which I am most familiar, which is a scientifically valid concern which falls between your two binary poles.