For all you pro-vax people: the question is not whether or not vaccines work, imo. The question is whether the chance of them working is the worth chance of being harmed by them.
Can you be genetically predisposed to have severe reactions to certain things, like tree nuts, strawberries, or tobacco? Yes. Can you have the same predisposition to metals or heavy metals? Yes.
But do we use genetic screening to check for these things before we inject them into our kids bodies? No.
I definitely don't want my kids to get polio, or measles, or diphtheria. I also don't want them to be injured by the supposed cure.
My son has a specific sort of mutation on a gene that affects the body's ability to process heavy metals. Thimerosal is ethyl mercury, a heavy metal. They say it's in small enough doses in the ethylated form to be safe because it's excreted from the body in a quick enough time. But what if your body can't excrete it fast enough? What if the compounding effects of receiving multiple vaccines in a short time period overwhelms the body's ability to process it?
It's a damn hard question and I think it's worth discussing. No one wants their kids to be sick if they don't have to be. And no one wants to harm their kids when they're trying to help them.
For all you pro-vax people: the question is not whether or not vaccines work, imo. The question is whether the chance of them working is the worth chance of being harmed by them.
Can you be genetically predisposed to have severe reactions to certain things, like tree nuts, strawberries, or tobacco? Yes. Can you have the same predisposition to metals or heavy metals? Yes.
But do we use genetic screening to check for these things before we inject them into our kids bodies? No.
I definitely don't want my kids to get polio, or measles, or diphtheria. I also don't want them to be injured by the supposed cure.
My son has a specific sort of mutation on a gene that affects the body's ability to process heavy metals. Thimerosal is ethyl mercury, a heavy metal. They say it's in small enough doses in the ethylated form to be safe because it's excreted from the body in a quick enough time. But what if your body can't excrete it fast enough? What if the compounding effects of receiving multiple vaccines in a short time period overwhelms the body's ability to process it?
It's a damn hard question and I think it's worth discussing. No one wants their kids to be sick if they don't have to be. And no one wants to harm their kids when they're trying to help them.