Reply #7: Although I doubt the antivax crowd will understand any of this [View All]

[Warpy]

article any better than the technobabble they regularly post (and which is very nicely debunked in this article), I give you kudos for a great try.

The bottom line is that the usual childhood diseases we now vaccinate our kids against weren't just nuisances, they were killers. Even measles was much more dangerous than the worst reactions from the vaccine.

Everything in medicine is decided on a risk vs. benefit basis. Those of us who are old enough to remember polio epidemics and kids in braces in our schools and in iron lungs in the hospitals know what the benefits are. The risk of vaccination is negligible compared to this.

Shame on the antivaxers.