Oddbean new post about login | logout I'd rather have an "antivaxer" for Health than a fat dude that thinks he's a woman.
One has broad implications for public health, and the other is a personal choice with no real impact beyond themselves. You have chosen... Stupidly. And before you try to make the equally stupid and bullshit claim that being antivax has no real impact beyond themselves, your choice to vaccinate or not impacts the health of everyone you encounter. Not just because of imperfect immunity with some vaccines, but also because there are a lot of people who can't vaccinate but want to. Primarily immunocompromised individuals and particularly young children.
Wonder why they're immunocompromised? The human body doesn't make mistakes. All vaccines are poison.
The human body doesn't make mistakes? Are you fucking serious? Down syndrome? Cyclopia? A dozen other common birth defects? Lethal allergies to mundane shit like peanuts?
Peanut allergies come from vaccines.
Food allergies predate vaccines by millennia with Hippocrates of ancient Greek being the first to document food as a cause of illness and potentially death in the historical record. The exact cause of the INCREASE in peanut allergy prevalence is undetermined from what I can see, but some suspect vaccines, but given we're discussing the human body's potential to make mistakes, that would at worst prove we can exacerbate it, not prove the allergies are exclusive due to them. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1323893016301137
The first case of down syndrome wasn't recorded until the 1860's and I would argue that most deformities are caused by environmental toxins and other outside influences. Peanut allergies didn't exist until the latter part of the 20th century. Most allergies started popping up after we started pumping vaccines into people. I wasn't allergic to anything and was perfectly healthy until I was vaxxed up in the military and now I have autoimmune issues and joint pain regularly. Our bodies have always had the natural ability to protect us from outside threats since the dawn of time. We wouldn't be here otherwise. Go take another booster.
The first documented case of down syndrome is about 1500 years ago. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25848-oldest-case-of-downs-syndrome-from-medieval-france/ As for arguing about the cause of birth defects, we do know some toxins can increase rates, but birth defects are documented going back to ancient history. There are writings in cuneiform, meaning the earliest civilizations to develop writing were already familiar with them. This would predate many of the toxins you most likely care about by millennia, and it would have been limited to a small subset of the population working the most toxic jobs, so a link probably would have been established somehow if they ONLY resulted from toxin exposure. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1746-1561.1969.tb07057.x On allergies, I already commented in response to the other peanuts comment, but food allergies were described but poorly understood going all the way back to ancient Greece. On our bodies always having been able to protect us, that's not quite correct. Our bodies have always been able to protect *enough of us to sustain the species.* Malaria has been documented for over 2000 years in ancient Greece and China. The black plague killed as much as fucking HALF of Europe in the 14th century. Disease has ravaged humanity as long as there has been humanity. Our bodies make mistakes. They ARE fallible. They succumb to disease. They form incorrectly. They develop allergies to safe, mundane foods.