a loosely organized conspiracy theorist subculture that blames the medical practice of vaccination for a wide range of health problems. Ironically, its advocates have been directly responsible for the return of health disasters by reinvigorating diseases that had almost been eradicated by said vaccines. The movement, led mainly by people with no medical or scientific qualifications (or tellingly stripped of credentials for malpractice and fraud), bases its claims mostly on spurious alleged short-term and long-term side effects of vaccinations — effects that are (to boot) often trivial compared to the severity of what were once common illnesses.
Anti-vaccination proponents argue that vaccines are deadly poisons (and that this ought to be "considered completely proven" to anyone but a shill). Yet the anti-vaccination movement fails to gain traction outside of social media. Therefore, by necessity, they argue that some kind of cover-up must be taking place (particularly in the CDC, but also in China, Russia, India - vaccine-manufacturing countries all - and in the United Nations); that the vaccines serve an agenda completely different from disease prevention; or that some sort of shadowy power operates to suppress the anti-vaccination "whistleblowers". This, of course, makes perfect sense.
“A system that's based on people voluntarily using their bodies to protect other vulnerable people.”
-Eula Biss
Simply put, complications are more likely to arise from illness than vaccination. In other words, the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks, by far, in (almost) every case. (The main exception being vaccines against diseases that the person has essentially zero chance of being exposed to--and by zero, we don't mean "low", we mean "zero known cases".)
After introducing polio vaccination, cases in the United States decreased from almost 30,000 in 1955 — many of which led to paralysis or death — to 910 cases by 1962. New polio cases in the U.S. are now a thing of the past.
In Britain, vaccination rates still dropped from 77% to 39%. Following this drop in immunization, the UK was hit by two sizeable whooping cough epidemics (one in 1978 and another in 1982), both of which resulted in houndreds of easily preventable deaths.
According to Willem van Panhuis et al. 2013, "a total of 103.1 million cases of these contagious diseases have been prevented since 1924 on the basis of median weekly prevaccine incidence rates.
im tired now so im not gonna keep squashing reviews since theyll claim all the post-vaccine polio deaths were staged or wathever or a infowars link