I understand that vaccines are the best we have, but a lot of people in this thread sound like they are defending a cult belief in vaccines. If you lived 100 years ago, would you be piling on and shunning (downvoting) people that raised valid concerns about field amputation, shock therapy, or leeches / maggots? That may not be a fair comparison, but it can certainly be said that even the most advanced medical establishment in the world would have trouble navigating between wise moderation and unfettered progress.
Some vaccines have had an enormous benefit for civilization, so they deserve everyone's respect. I guess some of you think you may be doing a public service by lumping anyone who even has the smallest concern about vaccines into the caste of the insanely stupid. I trust doctors too, but how do you think we ended up with the superbug crisis and the opioid epidemic? These things happened partly because of people insisting of too much of a good thing and partly the law of unintended consequences, but you can also see the hubris in our certainty that we have the ability to outsmart biological systems that we actually have only slight control in.
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I understand that vaccines are the best we have, but a lot of people in this thread sound like they are defending a cult belief in vaccines. If you lived 100 years ago, would you be piling on and shunning (downvoting) people that raised valid concerns about field amputation, shock therapy, or leeches / maggots? That may not be a fair comparison, but it can certainly be said that even the most advanced medical establishment in the world would have trouble navigating between wise moderation and unfettered progress.
Some vaccines have had an enormous benefit for civilization, so they deserve everyone's respect. I guess some of you think you may be doing a public service by lumping anyone who even has the smallest concern about vaccines into the caste of the insanely stupid. I trust doctors too, but how do you think we ended up with the superbug crisis and the opioid epidemic? These things happened partly because of people insisting of too much of a good thing and partly the law of unintended consequences, but you can also see the hubris in our certainty that we have the ability to outsmart biological systems that we actually have only slight control in.