Short one today. Short, but important.
In a previous post I pointed out how ridiculous the idea that the money people behind “big pharma” were pushing vaccines, not because it was medically a good idea but simply to make money. (Spoiler alert: There’s a lot more money in treating even “harmless childhood diseases” like measles compared to preventing them with vaccines.)
The other point that is claimed is that the vaccines themselves cause injury and are more dangerous than “acquiring immunity naturally” (which is weasel wording for “getting the disease”). And one of the things they like to point to is the Vaccine Injury Court and all the awards it’s granted. There, proof positive that vaccines are dangers and so you should avoid them.
Well, not so fast. First off, there’s very little actual science in this Vaccine Injury Court. As ZDogg (a practicing physician with popular YouTube and Facebook feeds) points out, you don’t need to prove beyond a reasonable doubt like in a criminal trial. You don’t even need a preponderance of evidence like in a civil court. All you need is to spin a story that’s reasonably plausible to people who only have a layman’s knowledge (i.e. none to speak of) of immunology and biochemistry.
But let’s take the strongest possible argument. Let’s presume that every case where an award was granted really was because of vaccines. In the thirty years between 1988 and 2018 20,728 petitions were filed with the vaccine injury court. Of these, 6,579 were determined to be compensable, i.e. that presented a case that sounded good to folk essentially ignorant on the subject.
6,579 over 30 years, or an average of 219 per year. In my previous post I noted that, before vaccination, the number of deaths from measles alone averaged about 450 per year.
Without vaccines, more than twice as many died from a single “harmless childhood disease” than all the compensable injuries (even at that very low standard of evidence) from vaccines–even if the compensable claims all, every single one, represented real injuries from vaccines instead of “just so stories”–combined.
Vaccinate your kids, people.
The Writer in Black 
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