I've read the post and all the replies and I am now annoyed at 8am. I get so fed up with people using terms like 'science denier', 'climate denier' or pretty much anything with the word 'denier' added to the end (including Holocaust denier). How arrogant and lazy people are. They think they know it all because their religion (science) and mainstream media tells them so.
I agree with the beginning of the post "The goal of vaccines is to create immunity to certain diseases" but things have changed since 1796. Big pharma is running the show now, not Edward Jenner and all they care about it making money.
I'm not saying that vaccines don't prevent disease or that they haven't saved lives but to dismiss those that challenge the accepted narrative or have questions or concerns is arrogant, particularly when in a lot of cases, those who are challenging the narrative have spent far more time looking into the issue than those who just cite "science" or read a metabunk article to prove their point about vaccines being safe.
As long as you are just an average Joe parent asking questions about vaccines you can be dismissed as a 'science denier' or 'irresponsible parent' but when someone like Andrew Wakefield or Dr Jayne Donegan come out and say things they are vilified and their careers destroyed.
Read about Jayne Donegan who started asking some questions and actually did a bit of research which included spending hours studying historical data which showed that vaccines had been introduced long after diseases like Whooping Cough had stopped killing people but the vaccines were hailed as a success.
Here's an article that tells Jayne's story
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/03/15/the-doctor-who-beat-the-british-general-medical-council-by-proving-that-vaccines-arent-necessary-to-achieve-health/
Here's a link to her website
http://www.jayne-donegan.co.uk/
Andrew Wakefield, Jayne Donegan and the thousands of others around the world who have questions about what we are told about vaccines shouldn't be hounded out of their jobs, smeared or just dismissed as crackpots.
We need to be open minded about all things and not just dismiss them because they make us feel uncomfortable but unfortunately I see it happen all the time.
Here's a link to an interesting study titled "Pilot comparative study on the health of vaccinated and
unvaccinated 6- to 12-year-old U.S. children".
It's only a small study and in no way conclusive but surely more study needs to be done on this topic.
http://oatext.com/pdf/JTS-3-186.pdf
New, better technologies exist. Vaccines may have been desirable when that is all we had, but it has been a productive 200 years. I would have no qualms about the subject if the hysterical vaccinators weren't trying to make it mandatory.
I regret the oversight on my part, that I have not followed you. This has been remedied, followed.