From the beginning, most science has been less than perfect, which, incidentally, makes it not "science" but just "science like" or "scientific". Thousands of "scientific" beliefs have been discarded over the centuries. There is no reason to believe many of today's scientific beliefs will not follow suit. Mathematics is probably the only true science, that is, the solution and results of a problem are ALWAYS the same. Anything less only mimics science in its approach to solving a problem.
The raging debate over vaccination invokes "science" on both sides. Each has credible evidence to prove their point. Who are we to believe and why?
To believe something, we have to look beyond the "truth" of the facts presented by each side because each will report only those which prove their side. We have to look at motive and who benefits from each position. In the case of vaccination, the science of the producers and advocates of vaccines is used for some dubious health benefit and profit. Those who oppose vaccinations profit in no way except, in their eyes, they are protecting the health of their children by avoiding toxic vaccinations and exercising free choice.
One of the more serious charge against vaccination is that it may cause autism which has increased in prevalence, apparently side by side with the increase of vaccinations. The vaccine supporters deny any relationship between the two, using "scientific" studies to disprove the claim. A better way to disprove it would be to find out what else may be responsible for the sudden explosion of autism which has reached rates beyond epidemic and affect peoples' life forever.... not just a case of measles.
No one should take the word of someone else about the safety and effectiveness of a vaccine without reading the insert, which you usually do not get to see, and know the ingredients and POSSIBLE side effects and understand that each of those actually happened to someone or it would not be listed.
The raging debate over vaccination invokes "science" on both sides. Each has credible evidence to prove their point. Who are we to believe and why?
To believe something, we have to look beyond the "truth" of the facts presented by each side because each will report only those which prove their side. We have to look at motive and who benefits from each position. In the case of vaccination, the science of the producers and advocates of vaccines is used for some dubious health benefit and profit. Those who oppose vaccinations profit in no way except, in their eyes, they are protecting the health of their children by avoiding toxic vaccinations and exercising free choice.
One of the more serious charge against vaccination is that it may cause autism which has increased in prevalence, apparently side by side with the increase of vaccinations. The vaccine supporters deny any relationship between the two, using "scientific" studies to disprove the claim. A better way to disprove it would be to find out what else may be responsible for the sudden explosion of autism which has reached rates beyond epidemic and affect peoples' life forever.... not just a case of measles.
No one should take the word of someone else about the safety and effectiveness of a vaccine without reading the insert, which you usually do not get to see, and know the ingredients and POSSIBLE side effects and understand that each of those actually happened to someone or it would not be listed.
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