Originally posted by: SunnyD
Originally posted by: Chryso
The good of the many outweighs the good of the one. It is better to have a small number of people die or be injured from a vaccine than to have millions dead or injured from the disease.
Let it happen to you and then see if you still feel that way.
Let what happen to me? Statistics?
A lot of autism cases are also borderline cases. For example, my nephew could be considered autistic. However, he responds to people just fine, has normal functioning, but is just behind a bit in interaction. A coworker has the same situation with his son. However, both my niece and his daughter are just fine.
More serious cases have been documented for hundreds of years.
I personally think it is awareness, plus the rationale of borderline, and parental zealousness.
It's like when my wife was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. If you look at the prevelance of thyroid cancer over the past 40 years you see the same type of curve. When asked whether it was awareness, or a fundamental trend, all doctors will tell you it is awareness. A large portion of people die with nodules on their thyroid, but don't die from thyroid cancer.
Other situations, like ADD/ADDHD are simple catch-alls for lazy doctors or helicopter parents who need a reason for their kid to be kids.
Another one that is ridiculous is IBS. My brother was diagnosed with IBS. He went to the UofMN medical, several twin cities doctors, mayo clinic...etc, because he had severe "IBS". Eventually, through a holistic medical journal, my mom eventually figured out he had developed odd alergic reactions, such as an inability to digest raw carrots, but cooked carrots were fine. Or an inability to digest cooked cauliflower, but raw caulifower was fine.
Legions of doctors couldn't figure it out, but my mom accidentally read a single "fringe" article.
People feel like they have to be diagnosed with something, they need a reason or a rhyme as to why they don't feel "normal". Doctors will give them a catch-all for that, or they make their own connections. Catchalls, such as ADD/ADDHD, or IBS, cause more problems than they solve.
McCarthy is looking for a reason for Autism, rather than just simple statistics. Her rationale behind that is harmful because it includes trace elements. Guess what? Everything you ingest has trade elements of harmful nature. Hell, the average lobby with marble has more radation emitting from it than the average nuclear ractor worker is exposed to during work.
Yet, people freak out about it. It's ridiculous. Every other modern country is far more worried about improving their country, yet idiots here waste time worrying about racoons, trees, and trace elements in vaccines. Shit, the infant mortaility is far higher in non-developed countries just for the reason we are being vaccinated. People forget when 1/5+ children would die, which is why there were huge families.
I had a friend at a prior job who commented on things like these. He said that Indians find this country hilarious, because while dipshits like Jenny McCarthy are freaking parents out about this stuff, distracting them from improving the country, they are in school getting engineering masters, or working their asses off to build a better country/economy. They simply don't have time for such stupidity, especially considering most of their educated people are also highly versed in quantitative rationality.
She is far more dangerous than the vaccines themselves.