Reply #32: Yes, I've never heard of PubMed. Medicine/Science isn't my vocation. [View All]

[stopbush]

Is that so surprising?

Perhaps I should list a number of publications and websites that deal with the classical arts and then act incredulous when you say that you've never heard of them.

Nobody's an expert in everything. Get used to it.

As far as "paying the price when someone sues you because your product fucked them up" - I have no problem with that as long as the proof offered that the product fucked you up is proof and not wild conjecture or gossip- and rumor-driven fear. At this point in time, Team Anti-vax has a credibility problem as it's being led by people who ignore science and argue against research. Having the Jim Carreys as your public face isn't helpful. There is certainly no incentive to change things when the science is on your side and the people complaining are making fools of themselves.

Currently, Team Anti-vax is assuming that adjuvants have deleterious effects. The research says they're wrong, but like the nuts over in the JFK CT wing of DU, they believe absence of evidence for their beliefs is evidence of someone covering something up. They need to get past such simple-minded fears if the want to actually help, not to mention have people take them seriously.

BTW - when you say people should pay for their mistakes, are you willing to hold the Anti-Vax crowd to the same standard as they urge parents to avoid all vaccines in their mistaken beliefs that vaccines cause autism, leaving a trail of death in their wake of children who died because they didn't get their vaccines? If so, how should they pay?