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Originally Posted by Libertine
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.
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Yes it is so ignorant to look at all the "mistakes" made in the past when science has rushed to judgement and ended up causing health issues and death to those that trusted in them blindly. Well then let me be ignorant. Id rather be ignorant than had my life shortened by a vaccine that I have probably less than 5% chance of ever needing to protect myself from a disease that isn't even likely to be fatal if I would contract it in the first place. Yes so ignorant. lol BAHHH!!