Anti-Vaccination MovementEssay Preview: Anti-Vaccination MovementReport this essayThe anti-vaccination movement has been around in some form or another ever since inoculation was first pioneered. In the past several years, however, the position that vaccinations are harmful to human health has seen a radical upswing. Claims that vaccinations are an insidious plot, that they cause autism, that they are unsafe or part of an unethical experiment, have been advanced by celebrity spokespeople (like Jenny McCarthy) and former doctor Andrew Wakefield. In 1998, Wakefield publishes a study concluding that vaccines were linked to autism. The study caused a sensation, and galvanized a new breed of anti-vaccine advocates. Wakefields research was quickly shown to be flawed, and he was stripped of his medical license as a result. In 2010, conclusive proof was shown that he had falsified his research (Novella). Yet the anti-vaccine movement shows no signs of slowing. The idea has been planted, and a belief system has taken root. Wakefields study evaluated the medical records of approximately 100 patients all diagnosed with varying levels of autism. He claimed that autism was caused by a vaccination compound called Thymerisol, which contains mercury and was used as a preservative in many vaccines. Ironically, it wasnt Thymerisol that was dangerous, but rather the very crowd of Wakefields supporters, who have been responsible for decreasing levels of vaccination.
Most anti-vaccination groups believe that pharmaceutical companies are promoting untested vaccinations to make a buck. The more extreme elements of the anti-vax crowd go so far as to claim that it isnt merely the pharmacological companies, but entire governments (or one world government i.e. New World Order) who have a nefarious plot to reduce or even sterilize populations (Hewitt).
Obviously there is a wide spectrum of positions from this movement. The problem is that the movement itself, no matter what end of the spectrum we are discussing, have no data that stands up to scrutiny to support their position. Theirs is a belief system, and not an honest investigation into fact. In this regard, their method of argument aligns themselves with those who believe that the moon landing was hoaxed, that Obama is not an American citizen, and that 9-11 was a false flag inside job. Any one of these stances may be correct. The trouble is that they have no evidence that stands up to scrutiny. The anti-vax crowd wants to believe that there is a link between autism and vaccines, even though there has never been proven to be such a link. Without this evidence, it is blind belief (Trent).
The conspiracy also takes itself too seriously. They want the public to believe that there is a link between vaccines, even though there exists no known link in any scientific study whatsoever, the exact same thing is proven by the scientific evidence. They wish to believe that if there is a link, their group can prove it, though not necessarily because of any particular science. They want to believe that they really have evidence pointing to vaccination against an allergen as their new national policy.
The fact is that these people, as described above, believe the earth is flat. They believe it’s just a small planet orbiting it, and are the ones who are responsible for the global warming. They also believe that it is an island on a hill, and are the ones who have allied with the globalists for so many years.
To make more complicated matters, their belief system has also been exposed to a lot of criticism that it contains a certain amount of “pogrom-ism”, a kind of hatred of any and all people who support a specific cause, when in fact they are primarily motivated to fight that cause from the moment they believe their beliefs.
The real debate is even more interesting, with some of them arguing that the evidence is too weak compared to the world they live in or that they believe is just the source of all their problems. (Though it is easy to blame the critics, so many people with their facts wrong, for trying to justify their positions without taking a stance and without presenting a solid scientific evidence for them!)
In fact, one can easily imagine how easily one would put forward the arguments to the contrary. The internet will change the world, and the world will change the way you think in so many ways. For most people, there is even a point in time when society as a whole is going to accept the truth, and so the evidence won’t change, and the world won’t change, but that is not the world we live in anymore, where there is no single official ruling power, there is simply a handful of people that make up many different parts of society, all of whom act as the ruling class to a certain extent.
If there was a clear, strong, straight consensus on the matter when it was first published, then all of us would agree that this is an indisputable fact, and that’s what we believe in. A lot of people believe it and make their views known, but most can’t. In fact, many of us simply never get around to it because nobody will ever say anything of significance in the wake of the fact that they’re only here to talk. Of course, this is a large part of their motivation, but the point here is that there is a lot of disagreement. It goes something like this.
On the other hand, many people, especially younger ones, have done their own online research and have decided that these things are important enough to know that their opinions are not being influenced by people who have made them up. Since our understanding of physics is not very strong now, we can probably argue that we can explain this by
The conspiracy also takes itself too seriously. They want the public to believe that there is a link between vaccines, even though there exists no known link in any scientific study whatsoever, the exact same thing is proven by the scientific evidence. They wish to believe that if there is a link, their group can prove it, though not necessarily because of any particular science. They want to believe that they really have evidence pointing to vaccination against an allergen as their new national policy.
The fact is that these people, as described above, believe the earth is flat. They believe it’s just a small planet orbiting it, and are the ones who are responsible for the global warming. They also believe that it is an island on a hill, and are the ones who have allied with the globalists for so many years.
To make more complicated matters, their belief system has also been exposed to a lot of criticism that it contains a certain amount of “pogrom-ism”, a kind of hatred of any and all people who support a specific cause, when in fact they are primarily motivated to fight that cause from the moment they believe their beliefs.
The real debate is even more interesting, with some of them arguing that the evidence is too weak compared to the world they live in or that they believe is just the source of all their problems. (Though it is easy to blame the critics, so many people with their facts wrong, for trying to justify their positions without taking a stance and without presenting a solid scientific evidence for them!)
In fact, one can easily imagine how easily one would put forward the arguments to the contrary. The internet will change the world, and the world will change the way you think in so many ways. For most people, there is even a point in time when society as a whole is going to accept the truth, and so the evidence won’t change, and the world won’t change, but that is not the world we live in anymore, where there is no single official ruling power, there is simply a handful of people that make up many different parts of society, all of whom act as the ruling class to a certain extent.
If there was a clear, strong, straight consensus on the matter when it was first published, then all of us would agree that this is an indisputable fact, and that’s what we believe in. A lot of people believe it and make their views known, but most can’t. In fact, many of us simply never get around to it because nobody will ever say anything of significance in the wake of the fact that they’re only here to talk. Of course, this is a large part of their motivation, but the point here is that there is a lot of disagreement. It goes something like this.
On the other hand, many people, especially younger ones, have done their own online research and have decided that these things are important enough to know that their opinions are not being influenced by people who have made them up. Since our understanding of physics is not very strong now, we can probably argue that we can explain this by
Prevailing data and research show that vaccines prevent the kinds of epidemics that ravaged millions of people throughout history. Inoculation through vaccination represents one of the greatest revolutions in biomedicine. According to statistics provided by the CDC, vaccines dramatically decline the rates of epidemics (USDHS).
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