The author highlighted numerous important aspects of this issue, including individual rights, medical efficacy and scientific veracity. She echoed sentiments and research I have presented, and she emphasized a key component to the controversy: the illegitimate "scientific method" used in vaccine safety trials. The double-blind placebo controlled trial is the empirical standard of medical science. But vaccine trials don't use this method.
You see, vaccines are not research effective because they are not subjected to double-blind placebo controlled studies using a saline solution that is the standard for evidence-based medicine. Vaccinations are tested against other vaccinations, adjuvants, and complex vaccinations – this not only yields inaccurate results but altered and inaccurate safety data. How can you know if something is truly safe if it is not tested against a placebo? -- Megan Heimer, Livingwhole.orgIt seems to me that even people who trust that pharma companies are using honest, objective scientific methodology to test their drugs (I am not one of those people) would assent to the falsity of the vaccine safety test methods. Other drugs are not (supposed to be) tested thus.
Some people might agree with the unscientific vaccine testing protocol, excusing it by saying it would be "unethical" to withhold a "necessary" medicine from a child (I read this in the comments section on Megan's post). Hmmmm...are vaccines truly necessary? The jury is certainly out on that one. Consider that there are thousands of unvaccinated children in this country alone...many of them by parental choice...not to mention the unvaccinated adults. No child died after a well-check from not receiving a vaccine, but children have died after receiving their vaccines. I do not believe it is acutely life threatening to withhold a vaccine, so a legitimate study, even a short-term acute reaction study, could certainly be done.
Kudos to Megan for her Response to Eliminating Vaccine Exemptions!
