My Mother is an Anti-Vaccination idiot.

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A binary question has a correct answer. Does it not depend where the evidences lies. If the evidence lies with vaccines being a mostly good thing, then it's good to take a positive position on it. End of story.

It's not a binary question. Medicine affects different people differently - for me, for instance, penicillin is a great drug and works well. For others it does not.

You can't just lump every single drug together and then say they're all equal. There are pharmaceuticals that have been recalled, there are drugs that are legal in some countries and totally illegal in Australia. It's no different for vaccines - just because some/many/most are great doesn't mean that all are, and in fact some have been recalled in recent years proving that not all are safe.

There is no but, that is all you need to know.

Bullshit.

The default scientific position is scepticism.

Let's just pretend I'm conceded the harm aspect. What's the ratio of good vs. harm in vaccines then? if you're seriously going to bring such rare occasions.

Irrelevant because you're comparing the vaccines that are tested and proven already with new ones that are not. That's like comparing penicillin to some other fungus you've just discovered and just put onto the market with only 6 months of testing - not 6 years, and not the length of time we've had the existing drug.

Again, how often do recalls happen to how often the vaccines work?...

Would you take a recalled vaccination after it's been recalled? If not, then why would you want to take it before it's recalled?? Ignorance is bliss.

You and my mom would definitely get along. Complete horseshit, Vaccines have never been better and continue to get better.

I don't take the position your mother takes, in case you didn't notice.

Could you really name a vaccine you would refuse your child, this should be good...

Not off-hand, no.