Reply #166: Hmm.. Trotsky, what do you think? [View All]

[LibLabUK]

"Vaccines have been so successful in preventing disease in the U.S. that in recent years, the annual number of reports to VAERS have exceeded the total number of reports of routine childhood vaccine-preventable disease."

How many millions of doses are given each year?

I'd estimate that the number of doses of vaccine given outnumber the number of cases of infection by orders of magnitude.

What's the actual ratios of doses given to serious adverse reactions?

The other problem with her reasoning, is that she's been very vague as to what she calls a reaction (with the exception of death). Generally in clinical trials we don't count reactions to drugs if they occur 28 days post administration (unless the pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic profiles of the drug suggest otherwise). I'd be very suprised if any ingredient of a vaccine was still present after 28 days (afterall, the active ingredients should have been destroyed by immune reaction, and the inactive ingredients passed through). So given this, how long after administration is she going to count adverse reactions?

And then there's the question about mechanisms of action. I'd like to see some actual studies that show the mechanism by which these vaccines do harm. We hear them all harping on about mercury, thimerosol, and the boogy man but no one has actually suggested a mechanism by which these agents are supposed to do harm. Surely the anti-vaccine lobby is funding some research?

SO, other than lacking solid definitions of harm, ignoring pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic studies of drug distribution, metabolism and elimination, mis-stating statistics, and mis-representing risk I think she's got a solid argument.