Vaccines Are The Single Most Effective Medical Treatment Ever Invented
It is rather sad that I have to make this infographic considering humanity has made it through the 21th century. Over the last few years I realised that many people live in denial when it comes to simple concepts such as the effectiveness of vaccination for a variety of treatments. Many seem to forget the fact that without them most of us wouldn’t be reading this post.
Normally I wouldn’t even bother engaging in this subject since vaccination remains a personal choice for each and every person. Individual freedom is a natural right nobody should be denied. Nobody can force anyone to get a vaccine.
Nonetheless, since we are all living together in communal societies, I am writing this because I am concerned about my health. Mountains of evidence show that people who choose not to vaccinate their children or themselves are putting in risk everyone around them.
I thought about making a detailed post with academic papers in regards to the effectiveness of vaccination. I could debunk every single myth about autism, deaths, “chemicals” or other pedantic claims the anti-vaccine movement makes but it would be pointless. Presentation of evidence do not quite register to most people’s perception once they have made up their mind about something. I just hope a graph with numbers anyone can cross-check (even with their grandparents) can enlighten those who still choose to remain in the dark.
On a side note: Nobody doubts that the pharmaceutical companies are there to make a buck like every other company. Nobody questions the fact that many of them are dubious and downright fraudulent. What we are talking about here is about an effective medical treatment that has been tested over many years. Vaccines have a great record in reducing human mortality for common diseases that used to wipe humans by the tens of thousands. We are very lucky to have been born in this time and age. Just 200 years ago the average human lifespan was barely 37 years.
If you are an anti-vaxxer and you don’t want to receive treatment for yourself at least don’t sacrifice your kid’s health for the sake of your own stubbornness.
If you read the science journal articles you'll come to only one sensible conclusion: vaccines are safe and effective. If you study beyond that you'll realize that the studies are little more than tobacco science. The data is forged, the problems are hidden, and the shots filled with mercury, formaldehyde, and other compounds harm kids. You're not an idiot for believing what you do, but you're a fool who has been tricked by astroturf. posts like this will end up hurting and killing kids. The simple answer is that sanitation, clean water, and access to healthy food eradicated illnesses. Vaccines came at the tail end of that and took credit.
You should watch Vaxxed as a starting point and do more research before other fools follow this idiotic advice and harm themselves or their kids.
I think they changed to Aluminum.. Still very neurotoxic.
I could bring evidence about mercury not being an issue since its all about % and not the compound itself , but fuck it. Let's take your logic instead.
You say:
and then you say
How do you know which studies to believe? Obviouly you believe once set of data instead of another. You favor one source over another. Why?
Why? Because I'm a PhD chemist that's studied this shit for 4 years straight! Mercury is harmful when it's not in an elemental form. Go look up Minimata Disease. It's what fucked up millions of Japenese people because a mercury plant leaked into their water supply. What were the symptoms?!? Basically autisum. Yep that little dose of mercury in the shot (yes it's still in shots) that crosses the blood brain barrier and then sits in your brain decomposing your nueral network is apparently bad for you.
The CDC has been caught over and over manipulating the data.
Walk into a sped class at any local elementary school. Start asking what percentage of their kids have gastrointestinal issues. Ask what percentage of kids are fully vaccinated. Kids that have autism were vaccinated. Period. Go find me an unvaccinated kid with Autism that didn't get strangled by his own umbilical cord at birth and I'll give you every SD I have in my account. PS. Try not to get murdered or arrested when you ask these questions because powerful interests don't like people snooping around.
There is a hidden vaccine court that has given out billions. Look at the damage gardisil has caused. Look at what happened to India when Bill Gates was injecting everyone with his polio vaccine. You can look at before and after in these countries and see harm repeated over and over again.
Go sign up for some anti vax pages on facebook and listen to parents who will share the exact same story nearly every time. My baby was healthy, I gave them shots, they had fever and diarrhea, they were never the same and I will spend the rest of my life regretting that decision.
Look at the medical school textbooks. The images they print promoting vaccines typically go back to 1940. The data is often there before 1890. Why dont' they show all the data? Because 90% of the decrease in those diseases happens before the invention of the vaccine. The final 10% happens after the vaccine following the same 100 year trend line going down. This is like starting a small business at the end of the great depression right before WWII picks up and then claiming it was your small business that revitalized the economy.
@kyriacos it's not simply "I picked my data." It's that all the data that the drug companies produce on this shit is so full of lies it's amazing. It's more than $30B/yr and people that question it end up dead and systematically attacked. People constantly risk their careers to show how dangerous these shots are and the big pharma comes down on them so hard.
Bottom line. Your opinion based on one side of the argument having not investigated the other thoroughly is going to cause harm to the people that read this post. You seem like a nice guy and you shouldn't want that trauma on your hands because you naively believed the people that have enormous vested interests.
You believe what you're told to believe in your books, you science nuts are no different than religious nuts, trusting your books and all hail science. Dentist believe that sodium fluoride is harmless, and it isn't www.fluoridealert.org has many cases, articles, studies and support that is is very harmful and it isn't in just dental products, so little exposure argument is invalid. Calcium fluoride is harmless, but they use sodium fluoride, that is the word play because people are so trusting that they wont allow themselves a second opinion because because "the government and medical science" knows all and has our best interest at heart. Funny that a lot of rich elites funds these studies and say in their books and interviews how they want to decrease the population. check the population statistics and see how much they've dropped, check the stats on how much cancer, autism, diabetes and obesity has risen and no medical science has stopped the numbers from going higher.
Flashing me your title means nothing. it actually makes the whole thing more tragic. Let;s take apart your claims shall we?
Vaccines used to contain thimerosal which is a mercury-containing preservative. It is a different compound than mercury. It hasn't been used in childhood vaccines since 2001, when the FDA opted to remove it even though studies show it's safe. Thimerosal's purpose was to keep bacteria from growing in multidose vaccine solutions. Vaccines that were once preserved with thimerosal are now put into single-dose vials or syringes that aren't susceptible to bacterial contamination.
"There's absolutely no scientific evidence to support this claim. There is, however, a slew of research that shows the complete opposite: that vaccines do not cause autism," says Richard Rupp, M.D., director of the office of vaccine clinical trials at the Sealy Center for Vaccine Development at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. This myth persists because of a fraudulent study in which the lead researcher, a British doctor who has since lost his medical license, lied about finding a connection between the measles vaccine and autism. It doesn't help that the more noticeable signs of autism tend to appear around the 12-month mark, after a child gets a series of vaccines. "Often, signs of the disorder were present when the baby was younger. It's just that autism becomes easier to detect when a child starts missing milestones," says Dr. Rupp. Studies show that both vaccinated and unvaccinated children are equally at risk for autism."
really i can't be fucked to copy paste everything. it has been debunked many times int he past
http://www.parents.com/health/vaccines/debunking-vaccine-myths/
LOL very true.
My nephew. Please send me the SBD :)
How would you know which set of data is correct? I support neither side, because both sides could be wrong or right. But could you find any data how many medical stuff take a flu shot today?
@kyriacos "you didn't bring any scientific evidence, you brought hearsay from american retards." I don't know your nationality...although "anal wart" comes immediately to mind...YOU have NOT provided a single shred of evidence to back your claim...calling someone else out for the same thing is a page stolen right out of the Liberal hypocrisy handbook...BRAVO moron...you couldn't look any dumber if you attached a drool bucket beneath your chin!
I can't trust anybody other than historical records of death tolls by the tens of thousands. that's all the evidende I need.
You want to belive but you don't accept evidence that contradicts your belief because you don't want to accept the fact that you have been lied to.
you didn't bring any scientific evidence. you brought hearsay from american retards.
I gave you scientific study from NCBI, National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
You just don't want to see it because it will prove you wrong.
Fair enough.
Where, pray tell, are links to support YOUR theory that vaccines are a miracle drug...people are not anti-vaxxers because they are stubborn...they are anti-vaxxers because they are informed. My sister has worked in the medical industry for over 30 years, for some of the biggest and best known hospitals and facilities on the East Coast...and she is against vaccinations. It's great that you have an opinion on the subject, and to each their own, but if you hope to sway a fence rider to one side or the other, you need to provide some actual factual supporting evidence...this shows nothing but a remanufactured infographic that does very little to support your argument.
Look pal. It is not about theory but about evidence. I don't care if your sister was working there. wtf? Since when being employed somewhere is evidence of anything? What kind of moronic logic is this? I know people who spend their whole life in a company and still disagreed with their policies — mostly because they were fuckheads themselves.
The anti-vaxxers are mainly american tinfoiled idiots who much like evolution and everything else science are behind. I lived there for 6 years and I can't believe how much lunacy that country carries. Almost all anti-vaxxers never went to school, never opened a book in their life and in all likelihood they are paranoid thinking that someone is out to get them.
You need evidence.? Start googling. Start from here. I said I won't bother writing them one by one since it has been done over and over again. Even if I did write them i would get the same crap as your comment as a response.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/tarahaelle/2015/02/17/15-myths-about-anti-vaxxers-debunked-part-1/#2ca256ea2655
Here's more evidence. Tdap vaccine has been proven to be very high risk for microcephaly and usa government knew that in 1991 but didn't do anything to stop it.
http://www.march-against-monsanto.com/1991-government-document-confirms-tdap-vaccine-causes-microcephaly/
Bullshit. Also monsanto makes both organic and GMO. both are perfectly safe. again. more tinfoil crap. here is the debunk of your claim
http://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/refuting-antivaccination-lie-pertussis-vaccine/
You're a trusting fool or a shill to think Monsanto and GMOs are safe. You must really love Big Brother.
Hey dumbass...quoting the blog posts of people with opinions does NOT debunk anything...if you were any damn dumber we'd have to call you "STUMP."
NCBI, National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
The National Center for Biotechnology Information advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information.
we shall see then
a lot of mosantos issues are more oilitcal and social. GMOs might turn out to be unhealthy, but I dont think theyre that scary. I'd tae organic anyday. Just seeing and tasting the difference between the two. Though the rate hih they harvest eggies and fruit before its ready and then spray it with stuff might be why that is. Ive only watched docs about monsanto and figred they were a shitbag cmpany, tho docs have to portray things emotionally to entertain vieweres.
Look pal...just because YOU make a statement on a social media platform, doesn't make it FACT...individuals who consider themselves to be authorities on subjects they have no formal education on, come across as hypocritical assbags...(find a mirror). The only crap here is your post...FORBES is not an authority on vaccinations...they are a publishing company, you want to talk about moronic logic...if this is your evidence, you need to put your helmet back on and buckle that chinstrap on pretty tight there Charlie. Your Liberal support of a program you obviously know absolutely NOTHING about, leads me to believe you will buy any bullshit published by the propaganda specialists of the mainstream media...go crawl back in your hole.
What kind of nonsense is this? Scientific debate, scientific method? Same old mindless ad hominum and shrill attacks. Calm down, mate.
Adding in that's it's wrong too. The people in America leading the charge away from vaccinations and public education are well educated white people. Your research skills are highly questionable.
Anti-caxxers are not ill informed, you just dont want to hear their side. You have confirmation bias, you feel safer believing that vaccines have zero % error. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFCrfK5rP_B6huriP1hLApw
Hear This Well: Breaking the Silence on Vaccine Violence
You going to call all these people who have been infected by vaccines wrong? Your cognitive dissonance makes you dismiss facts that challenge your convictions. And If vaccines were so safe than the kids who get vaccinated should have nothing to worry about according to pro-vaxxers? So why dictate others that they should agree with you? This is another shill funded garbage to ensure people and their kids get jabbed.
Statistics show that autism, cancer, diabetes and obesity have increased over time, and this was never a problem 50 years ago, but introduce vaccines and add unnecessary chemicals to food and water and those numbers rise, and yet vaccines haven not helped those numbers drop at all.
@trev Can you give a reason why you flagged several comments in this post?
Never said that they have 100% success. Before you accuse someone for logical fallacies at least try not to commit them yourself. Surely there are complications some times but the benefits outweight the negatives. THATS the point.
//You going to call all these people who have been infected by vaccines wrong?//
Actually I am going to call them idiots. Much like the 9.000.000 Americans who claim to have been kidnapped from aliens. Again. numbers of people don't make arguments. quite the contrary applies in the "murica fuck yeah" land of the "free".
No it doesn't. Coming up with cute words doesn't make me so. You need to provide evidence for me being cognitively dishonest.
exactly. there is nothing to fear about.
Because I am living around idiots like yourself. I wouldn't like to get sick because of your stupidity.
//Statistics show that autism, cancer, diabetes and obesity have increased over time, and this was never a problem 50 years ago,//
statistics, cancer and diabetes increased because we have better tools in detecting them. jesus you are a fucking moron. obesity increased because people sit on their asses and eat like pigs.
FML. fine. don't get vaccinated. clean the gene pool.
9 million Americans abducted by aliens...where in the wild blue f**k do you get your obviously biased and completely erroneous research from...the best thing you could do is vaccinate yourself into a slumber...you give dumb people a bad name...
fuck. so many idiots here in Steemit is not even funny. Are you all anti-vaxxers retard rednecks?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2013/11/14/about-as-many-people-say-theyve-been-abducted-by-space-aliens-as-say-theyve-committed-voter-fraud/
The practice of statistics was not as thorough 50 years ago as it is today. Obesity def has nothing to do with vaccine
Obesity is because of unhealthy lifestyle, GMO's, prescription drugs and junk food like mcdonald's.
Florence Nightengale pioneered more rigourous statistical data in mid 1800s. Still from then it was a long time before technology to allow better record keeping came about. It was just not possible to take and share records of health from even near every person in the world. So the number of deaths recorded pre-vaccine era is stronger evidence considering that. When was Autism even labelled and 'discovered', btw? Anti-vaxxers are probably descendants of ppl who thought every aberrant behaviour was a demonic possesson.
Florence N:
http://thisisstatistics.org/florence-nightingale-the-lady-with-the-data/
wait...what do you suggest? That the practice of vaccination be stopped completely?
here is all the evidence anyone needs:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/epidemics
Oct 24 start. Free!
Here's the graph you should have posted and here's the link you should have shared.
This article references multiple comparisons of large studies of vaccinated children vs unvaccinated.
Well said.
I sympathise with the anti-vaxxers even though I disagree with them because it is hard to know what to believe these days if you aren't in the medical or scientific communities.
There is just so much propaganda.
Don't get me wrong, I don't trust the drug companies as being great humanitarians but the body of research on vaccines and the effect that they have had on reducing infant mortality and improving general health is irrefutable.
Just as drug companies push their products so there are powerful forces at play pushing the anti-vaccine agenda and are feeding on the fears of these people.
That said we always need to be vigilant in the cases of new evidence and we should not ridicule people who are misinformed.
We as human beings like black or white answers because they make life simple. Unfortunately science is not about absolutes but instead looks at the body of evidence.
Further nobody should be forced to have vaccinations in a free society much as we may not like their opinions we should still respect the right to choose.
The ethical issue arises when not vaccinating can lead to the deaths or serious injury of others (including the children of those who oppose it). There is no easy answer to this issue.
there is more propaganda coming directly from the medical science because they have to uphold their reputations, funding and never admit when they're wrong and they have more money to fund campaigns that are pro-vaccines and get big name stars to help promote them and people don't research or listen to the victims, they just blindly trust the shiny flashy doctors. Next you'll be telling me that sodium fluoride isn't a toxic for our bodies. What a shame, I thought this website would be free of shills, so you get paid to push disinfo and then get voted up for it too.
I understand what you mean. This is why i made a side note on the post. Thing is most vaccines for most illnesses are perfectly safe. The claims of the anti-vaccine movement is mostly bullshit like "oh no there is murcury". It's all about %. Basic science knowledge would solve this problem. Also. I find it hard to believe that there is a global conspiracy from all universities to hide the truth about vaccines. It would impossible.
Most people that are anti-vaxxers are just propegating what they have heard left and right. They hate anything the goverment comes up with. It is almost like a jerk reaction
Yes I sympathise. Also mercury is no longer used in most vaccines.
It's given every single year. It's on the CDC page last time I checked that it's still given in every seasonal flu vaccine. You two should be smarter and better researchers than this.
Really? When you start making these kind of statements it means you have lost any semblance of a reasoned argument.
Perhaps you should reread what I posted. Most vaccines don't contain mercury.
Using even your example of influenza vaccination shows your statement to be inaccurate. There are multiple flu vaccines licensed in the US and less than half (4 out of 9) contain thimerosal:
This information is easily accessible but most people who are on the extremes of any argument generally don't bother with any research. It seems to apply to most things.
theres been a helluva initiatve to remove mercury from everything.
OR MAYBE...the cold, truth is:
The government is trying to kill us all. Because they don't need us or anything like that. It's probably a Dr. Strangelove situation, the gov is gonna kill us all so they can live in a bunker underground before the nukes reign (they know when and where it is going to happen). And they'll be takin' our wimmins! OUR WIMMINS.
Lol @radioactivities thanks for injecting some humour. Pun intended.
bring me the evidence for your claim. meanwhile here is my evidence
"Findings of this meta-analysis suggest that vaccinations are not associated with the development of autism or autism spectrum disorder. Furthermore, the components of the vaccines (thimerosal or mercury) or multiple vaccines (MMR) are not associated with the development of autism or autism spectrum disorder."
http://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/yes-autism-rate-rising-vaccines-caused-vaccines/
A good meta-analysis of badly designed studies will still result in bad statistics.
Ok, my jimmies have been officially rustled. I'm gonna stop commenting below and I'll put together the best counter argument I can. It'll take a few days because of life stuff, but I'll make it, and then I invite you to troll all over my piece.
These Big Pharma trolls won't ever believe anything that hurts their propaganda.
I don't think he's a big pharma troll. I think he's just been duped. that's fine for him and his family, but he has a reach of 1500 people. Telling people to do something backed by data proven to be fraudulent is outrageously dangerous.
This is the Vaxxed Movie with the evidence of the CDC cover-up.
I guess you dont look into the people that do get autism from vaccines because that ruins the pro-vac narrative.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFCrfK5rP_B6huriP1hLApw
Hear This Well: Breaking the Silence on Vaccine Violence
Many real cases of people coping with the relatives who lives are effect by autism due to vaccines.
there there now. hash hash
debunked over and over again
http://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/yes-autism-rate-rising-vaccines-caused-vaccines/
Jesus dude. They are citing the CDC, which has public whistleblowers that say they lie over and over. The CDC is a co-opted agency where politicians make corporate appointments to fill their leadership positions. It's no wonder the CDC is pro vaccines. Their chairs are a rotating door of Merck, Pfizer, and Bristol Mayers Squibb employees. You know, the companies that make $30B/yr.
So your logic is "all pro-vaccines sources are bad"
and "all pro-anti-vaxx sources are legit"
Everything has politicians. Every. fucking single thing. You are not making an argument.
I would trust millions of mothers that tell me vaccines have hurt their children over a pharma representative holding a government post that says they are safe. The CDC is caught lying! That's not a conspiracy. It's a fact! So, when you post links to articles based on CDC data you're clearly not picking up what I'm putting down. That's not a counter argument. You are posting tobacco science as a defense. Find an independent article that compares vaccinated to unvaccinated people, then check to make sure that folks that published it aren't getting paid by big pharma. The problem is you blindly accept that what the CDC and pharma is telling you. Actually, the problem is that because you have a large reach and promote science that is based on publicly exposed lies makes you culpable in further injuries.
The actual title to your chart should be "introduction of sanitation" not introduction to vaccines, and that would explain the results one hell of a lot better than vaccines.
Absolutely! I have heard personal stories from so many people of how vaccines harmed and even nearly killed them. These are good, intelligent people with no reason to lie. I believe them! It's pretty simple. There are too many stories to be coincidence. They are not liars. They are not delusional. Vaccines regularly cause serious damage.
By using one single propagandasite that has nothing to do with real science, makes you nothing but a lowlife troll.
I'm old enough to remember the Polio, Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever, Mumps and Measels epidemics. I had friends a relatives who died.
That no longer happens.
Vaccines are one of the best things that has been invented..
Period.
In the old days vaccines were made to cure and treat people. Now modern day vaccines are just business where health is pushed aside to not interfere with profit.
Actually, vaccines have NEVER worked...historically, a disease appears on the "medical landscape," let's say Polio...it begins to run its course, infecting hundreds, then thousands, and maybe even millions. When it arrives on scene, very little is actually known about it...relevant data is collected over countless days, weeks, months, maybe even years...while this is taking place the medical community hatches a plan to earn more profits through the use of things like "vaccines." Tons of money and research go into the development of the vaccine to "treat," NEVER cure (there is no profit in a healthy population) the condition. By this time the disease has run its course and begun to vanish by itself as better hygenic conditions are instituted in places where the pandemic has cropped up. By the time the vaccine arrives on scene, the disease has all but exhausted itself, which magically coincides with the arrival of a miracle drug (vaccine), which the medical community then touts as being an effective means of remedying the situation.
I think that is part of the problem. Most people around today have no idea how deadly and disabling these diseases were.
I had chickenpox, measles and mumps myself. I still have faint scars from the pox. Mumps are painful. I don't recommend it.
Anti Vaxxers are just like those who banned DDT in times past, and are personally responsible for the resurgence of malaria and the deaths of millions , mostly children.
I can't upvote this enough
I remember long time ago a good friend of mine who is a neurosurgeon.He NEVER vaccinated his children and he is still against any vaccination. He treats his family with homeopathy . His children lost half days of school compared to other children affected with children diseases. Since i met this man i lost any trust to vaccines... Of course everyone is sorely responsible for his health and his life.
you had me at "homeopathy"
FML. are you all guys tinfoiled vigilante's followers?
Lol I only speak with my personal experience , not following anyone.
FDA approves vaccines and other pharmaceuticals so fast that there is no possible way that it has been tested properly.
If you are vaccinated, then how can unvaccinated cause any harm to your health? Vaccines give the diseases in the patient and for few days that patient can spread the disease to unvaccinated people. So anyone who gets vaccinated should stay away from other people untill the infecting period has passed.
You don't really get how vaccines work. You get vaccinated with traces of the disease emulated for anti-body action so that your body will kick start it own defence system towards that disease.
Seriously guys. WTF? study the subject a bit before commenting.
Your post is pure fear mongering propaganda OR you have serious cognitive dissonance.
you are a moron. i could post the same to you.