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One the one hand vaccines are proven to be beneficial.
On the other vaccines are known to be injurious to some partakers.
Think about it like this: Cars in our society are quite beneficial. Cars also are quite deadly in some cases. We are not about to outlaw cars, are we? Nor are we going to make car manufacturers pay an outright fee for the damage their products cause.
The best we can do is keep talking about the problems and pray our government regulates as best it can so damages are limited.
Remember the days car makers claimed that air bags were not going to do any good?
Godhumor
(6,437 posts)Only exception.
There is no other valid argument at all to say a child shouldn't be vaccinated. There is no gray area.
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)Therefore government should be doing every thing it can to make sure all vaccines are as safe as possible.
The CDC asked that Thimerosal be removed from some vaccines for that very reason. But still allowing it in others?
Saboburns
(2,807 posts)Yeah, they remind me of people who tie themselves in knots posting silly allegories berating vaccinations.
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)Corporations are known for not having the best interests of the public in mind when making profitable decisions. The republicans hate government regulating any such decisions.
Unfortunately, given the hige private involvement in public health decisions, we face the same mindset as the car makers had at one time.
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)than the odds of suffering an adverse vaccine reaction. The odds of an adverse vaccine reaction are roughly one in a million. The odds of dying of measles in an unvaccinated population? Two hundred out of every million cases (per US data on fatality rate of measles from 1985-1992).
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Measles is heating the Pacific Ocean.
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)In fact, there are quite a few other mortality events of much pacific sea life on the west coast.
See Enenews.com for credible mainstream media reports linked there.
Thanks for reminding me why I am an anti-Nuclear Dem!
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)You laughing at dead sea life.
The head of the US nuclear navy had this to say about nukes:
Adm.Hyman Rickover, the Father of the Nuclear Navy and of Shippensport nuclear reactor. In the twilight of his career, he testified before Congress in January 1982. Below is an excerpt from his testimony. Given who this man was and what he did, his statements were profound.
Heres an excerpt from Rickovers testimony:
Ill be philosophical. Until about two billion years ago, it was impossible to have any life on earth; that is, there was so much radiation on earth you couldnt have any life fish or anything. Gradually, about two billion years ago, the amount of radiation on this planet and probably in the entire system reduced and made it possible for some form of life to begin
Now when we go back to using nuclear power, we are creating something which nature tried to destroy to make life possible
Every time you produce radiation, you produce something that has a certain half-life, in some cases for billions of years.
I think the human race is going to wreck itself, and it is important that we get control of this horrible force and try to eliminate it
I do not believe that nuclear power is worth it if it creates radiation.
Then you might ask me why do I have nuclear powered ships. That is a necessary evil. I would sink them all. Have I given you an answer to your question?
On the hazards of nuclear power.
Testimony to Congress (28 January 1982);
published in Economics of Defense Policy:
Hearing before the Joint Economic Committee,
Congress of the United States, 97th Cong., 2nd sess., Pt. 1 (1982)
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hyman_G._Rickover
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)You always lose.
Because it -- being pro-nuke -- is a loser.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)No comment about what the Father of the US Navy had to say about nukes?
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)if your premise is that the government doesn't regulate vaccines, then you should just delete your OP and write a new one that includes a valid premise.
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)Like they regulate air and water pollution. And the NRC regulates nukes: Badly.