Here's something I really don't understand, the CT theories surrounding vaccinations....

[Humanist_Activist]

Or I should say the insinuations that revolve around this debate.

You have the pro-vaccine side, who advocates based on the effectiveness of vaccines, the need for herd immunity to protect those that vaccines can't or won't work on, etc.

Then you have the anti-vaccine side, who generally use discredited quacks, unfounded assumptions, and purposefully ignorant suppositions in there opposition to vaccinations.

But the one thing the anti-vax side does that I really don't understand is make the claim and insinuation that the pro-vaccination side is pro-corporation or pro-pharmaceutical industry. How the fuck does that work?

We, on the pro-vax side, advocate for the ELIMINATION of disease, outright, Smallpox, hopefully Polio, hopefully many others in the future, we want eliminated. How does this help the pharmaceutical industry? Indeed, since when are vaccines, in general, a good financial option for Big Pharma?

They have been proven effective in greatly reducing the infection rates of a whole host of disease that I'm sure Big Pharma can make a killing on treating, rather than preventing, if those vaccines didn't exist. The margins on these vaccines are small, the patents for many are non-existent or will expire, in many cases, Big Pharma is simply supplying a need. What's the end goal here?

Think about this, I never got the smallpox vaccine, not one corporation made a profit off of me with that vaccine, because its no longer necessary. Even if vaccines are overpriced(and I think some are), as long as they are effective in what they advertise to do, and the government steps in to eat the cost when we need them, what's the problem?

[shenmue]

1. There always has to be a magical "Them"

An all-powerful, shadowy Thing That is Out to Get Us.

[Humanist_Activist]

2. They seem to forget that many of those "them" are not magically immune from...

the same things that afflict the rest of us.

Even the 1% can get sick and die. Spanish Influenza, Small Pox, Polio, etc. didn't just target the poor, but everyone.

[NuclearDem]

3. Because Big Pharma mercury sheeple freedumb argle bargle

[Humanist_Activist]

4. You summed it up succinctly, that's pretty much the thought process...

of an anti-vaxer.

May I just mention that I'm sick and tired of there ignorance of basic chemistry as well(the whole Mercury thing).