Do you think the anti vaccine movement has any merit? Are they using their crusade as a solution to problems that may well come from another means, like our diet?
First, I think all vaccines are beneficial and would stick to the recommended schedule of a doctor, unless it's the flu vaccine. The data to support its efficacy, as opposed to the high efficacy of the measles vac, is insufficient to convince me to get it. Once I changed my diet, I haven't been sick, so I'm sticking with that until the success rate improves.
The anti vaccine brigade are anti science. I like the idea of herd immunity - that is where vaccines come in. I have received some push back on that idea, but I continue to think that is where we, as a society, land. Yes, some children have adverse (or worse) reactions to vaccination. But I prefer that to the alternative.
No, I don’t, and consider them/ that a detriment to humanity. There are always those attempting to make something of nothing, thus add nothing. In this case, they take - the collective health and security of humanity. Theirs is pseudoscience, a close relative of religion…
It takes all some societies have to implement a vaccination program, the last thing they, or the world need is to spend even more countering the bullshit propaganda of these attention-seeking miss-informed anti-science zealots. And if any such zealot cares to dispute the benefits of vaccines … I say hand them a vial of smallpox or polio when deposited on the island with their co-conspirators and let them ..pray.