To be fair, this is not a totally bogus idea. I don't buy it, though, in part because in my research I find the impacts of vaccines to be anything but a positive factor in raising a kid to productive adulthood (where they will, with luck, assist the parent in their old age.) Being highly devastating to health, vaccines are great for prescription drug and adult diaper sales though.
A question that I have been intending to ask you in the other thread, where you ignored
my challenge (just have not caught up there due to it being a low priority amongst high priorities):
Do you suggest to parents that all their kids will be just fine without vaccines, with low or no risk of childhood death from illness?The ball is in your court over on that thread Mr. We-Need-Dead-Babies (which is a highly technocratic I must say.)
I consider the risk to my minimally vaccinated kid to be extremely low from being harmed by any of the diseases that the vaccines are advertised to protect against for the simple reason that they were already very low by the time they got around to even having a vaccine for them.
I did request the BCG because in my analysis:
- The environmental risks outweighed the vaccine risks,
- I consider the theory of operation of this vaccine to be sound and safe,
- Recent studies (Chinese scientists) shed a lot of light on the mechanics of early post-birth brain development and the effects that various classes of vaccine have on them and BCG was shown to actually be, if anything, helpful. Unlike Hep-B which was the opposite.
I only have one main concern. The next move from the pro-vaxxer side will probably be to deliberately release agents which are designed to attack unvaccinated kids. They will justify it as a good and necessary thing that they must do for the good of the collective because it will increase the number of people having their kids shot up. I've read enough to see what kinds of creepers are on the so-called 'skeptics' side (orac, skeptical raptor, amazing Randi, etc) and I've zero doubt that they are easily capable of such a strategy. The tide is turning against the pro-vaxxers and they are likely getting quite desperate.