
Originally Posted by
hdugger
Again, just to say that what appears to be proven by science ain't necessarily so. It's all just fallible humans looking at things and making their best guess on interpreting what they see, and it can all be turned topsy-turvy with another look. I'm more trusting of the thinking behind the DPT studies, but, knowing what I know about the state of medical research, I'm not really willing to bow down before any of it.
And, yes, I did vaccinate my son against Pertussis

Yes but saying medicine is flawed, and we know it is in large part because of the inability to do controlled trails in some cases, in no way undermines the fact that it is still the only game in town for hoping to know anything real. It is evidence-based versus everything else which is based on wishful thinking.
Vaccination is a victim of its own success in some ways. It is hard to control for masses who have not enough training to reason their way out of a paper bag in the case of these anti-vac folks. Some privately held beliefs don't just harm the individual... they harm innocents. That is an ongoing issue.
Sharon, mother of identical twin girls with scoliosis
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Question: What do you call alternative medicine that works?
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