by Kellie Bischof

Created on: April 27, 2009

Of course vaccines should NOT be mandated. It's so silly when you really think about it.

"But seatbelts for children are mandated," you say, "why not vaccines?" It's simple. Vaccines hold very serious risks including brain damage and death, while seatbelts do not. Parents should not be forced to vaccinate any more than they should be forced to knowingly expose their children to a deadly disease.

But the benefits of vaccines always outweigh the risks, right? Maybe, maybe not. It depends on which expert you ask. It cannot be denied that vaccines carry serious risks. To think that those serious risks are so rare that it is impossible for your child to be affected is the equivalent of sticking your head in the sand. Read: Vaccine Injury Table. In case you're wondering, anaphylactic shock is a severe, rapid, and sometimes fatal hypersensitivity reaction to a substance, especially a vaccine, penicillin, shellfish or insect venom.

There are two major conflicting beliefs when it comes to vaccines:

1) Vaccines are safe, effective, and necessary

and

2) Vaccines are unsafe, ineffective and unnecesary.

If you think either of these two views is more scientifically valid than the other, you may need to think again. As far as conclusive evidence goes, there has not been any scientific proof of either of the two beliefs. Despite the efforts made by much of the mainstream medical community to convince the public that vaccine are safe and necessary, there is no solid proof of this claim.

We really don't know how safe or effective vaccines are, because we've never seen a long-term large-scale independent study of vaccinated vs. unvaccinated individuals. Vaccine studies are usually small and examine vaccinated vs. vaccinated individuals.

Don't think that's a big deal? How would you like it if I conducted a study in which I examined smokers who smoked menthol cigarettes vs. smokers who smoked regular cigarettes, with the intention of determining if smoking is safe or not? I found no difference in the two groups as far as cancer rates went, so I published my findings and shouted my conclusion:

Cigarettes are completely safe and DO NOT cause cancer!

Would you buy it? I wouldn't, and I don't buy vaccine conclusions either, thus far, because like I said, the proper studies have not been done.

Another vaccine study we have not seen is safety studies for the individual vaccine ingredients. How can we be sure of the safety of injecting questionable ingredients such as aluminum and formaldehyde into

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