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Nearly half of Americans hold some form of vaccine skepticism, poll finds (www.independent.co.uk)
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Only 39% of people in poll said that the science on vaccines ‘is clear and it is damaging to question it’

Nearly half of Americans are somewhat skeptical of vaccines, a new poll has found.

Some 46% of U.S. adults who responded to a Public First poll by Politico in March agreed that “facts on vaccines are still up for debate and it is damaging to enforce their uptake.”

In contrast, only 39% said that the science on vaccines “is clear and it is damaging to question it.”

The results of the survey are in line with the views of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime vaccine skeptic and founder of the Republican “Make America Healthy Again” movement.

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[–] 23 points 6 months ago* (5 children)

is damaging to question it

Then it's religion, not science.

Sorry - ALL medicine should be questioned, heavily today. We have dangerous meds put on the market all the time.

Anyone remember Vioxx? FDA said it was "safe and effective" and then it killed people?

FDA also said phen-fen was safe and effective, then it killed people.

Ozempic is a current one that is "suprisingly" showing dangerous side effects.

I could probably come up with a dozen more with trivial research.

My doc prescribed two meds simultaneously that are clearly labelled as bad to combine, one was contraindicated for me specifically due to other conditions (which he denied despite the studies, and documentation from the manufacturer being very clear).

We need to stop treating medicine (and doctors) with religious reverence.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago

    ALL medicine should be questioned, heavily today. We have dangerous meds put on the market all the time.

    Sure but...

    Anyone remember Vioxx? ... phen-fen ... Ozempic

    None of which are vaccines. The poll was asking about"the science on vaccines" which is very well established, and those questioning it do so out of either ignorance or a "hidden" agenda (usually to sell a hand wavey book or get subscriptions to their "healthy mom something or other" YouTube channel).

    The people with the actual credentials to be qualified to question vaccine science aren't questioning it, because there's nothing there to question.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Saw an Anime last year that was ok, but the subject was great. They created a drug that was so amazing it cured a lot of things and over the years of people having it they estimated it was taken by a huge percentage of the world by that point. Then they found out that it did have side effects and effected 100% of people that took it leading to death. I figured the plot was kind of taken from our current system of clinical trials where some drugs may be approved but you still dont know long term what may happen fully.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    You really can't get away from that. The alternative is that you test your new drug for 50 years before selling it to see if there are any bad long term effects. What we currently do is test for a shorter time, if everything looks good you can start selling it. However, the drug company and FDA do post market surveillance to find things like your examples.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Obviously you're correct in a vacuum, but this isn't a vacuum. There's a context of that question that you're seemingly ignoring for some reason. Nobody answering this question is saying vaccine should be questioned in a rigorous scientific context. That's not what the questions asking that's not what the answers are telling. They're saying it should be questioned by people selling you vials of silver on their podcast. They're saying it should be questioned by influencers. They're saying it should be questioned by whack jobs. They're saying it should be questioned by people with brainworms.

    Because it was already questioned by scientists. That's called the scientific method. Peer review is already a part of our scientific process. So let's not pretend like that's not the context of the question and the answers. We should all be smart enough to realize that.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Another way of putting it:I trust Science, but I do not trust that the for-profit pharmaceutical industries have the best interests of public health as their priority. In fact, their managers have fiduciary duty to their shareholders to increase value.

    I trust vaccines in general, but its hard to trust these companies. Insulin is another great example- the inventor sold the patent for $1 purposefully to make it affordable for everyone, and in almost every country in the world it is cheap and abundant. In the US, these pharmaceutical companies hiked the prices up to hundreds of dollars per month until the Inflation Reduction Act set price caps starting in 2023 (as an aside: another perfect example KF how dumb people who claim BoThSiDeS are the same in US politics are)

    Or look at the opiod crisis. Look at the banning and continued restriction of cannabis.

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