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Originally Posted by stickyfingerz
Wait so you are saying that scientists were off the mark here? Hmm I thought they did not make mistakes and we should trust them unconditionally to know what is best for the "greater good" lmao. You guys are the nuts ones trusting someone to inject stuff into you that might affect you till the day you die.  |
Scientists are often off the mark. That's the point of science: making judgments based on facts, and adjusting your judgments as you gain new information. But while scientists are not infallible, they at least know what they're talking about, and base their positions on current research.
People like you, on the other hand, base their statements on absolute and complete ignorance.
Take the article in the OP, for example. In this thread, you seem to have interpreted some newspaper article as evidence that the vaccine isn't safe.
Here's what you apparently don't know:
Risk of getting GBS (which has about a 5% death rate) after a flu vaccination is thought to be around 1-2 in a million.
Risk of getting GBS after getting the flu is thought to be around 1-2 in 50k.
Risk of dying from the flu is around 1-1.5 in 10k.
But hey, by all means, go on being ignorant.