I think I might have to invoke this. I tried reading some research papers but I couldn't understand a lot of them, to much medial jargon.
Thankfully my relative isn't the flat earth type. That's a little *to* crazy for them.
Also why the hell do people think it's my uncle, I never gave any clues to the exact relation of the family member in question.
I would agree with your assessment of rationalwiki.
And you're right, this isn't something I want to spend months on for little fruit. I will be updating my shots in the near future. (I've already had most up to maybe age 10)
ok, thanks. This makes sense. Thanks for the help.
I'll use that
That's a fair point. I don't know of any studies that showed vaccines are dangerous.
Do you know any sites I can find research papers? (or at least the names and authors, libgen is a thing after all)
I do agree that separate vaccines may have different safety concerns.
The ones my relative seems to dislike most are the DTAP, measles, and Flu vaccine. They seem to think these ones in particular are more dangerous/less effective (especially concerning effectiveness and the flu vaccine).
This part is a value debate, not a factual debate. Vaccination is a form of trolley problem: we sacrifice the few people who get an adverse reaction to the vaccine, to save health and lives of the majority. Makes sense statistically; also makes you mad when it is your child thrown under the trolley. (The converse point is that when everyone else vaccinates their... (read more)
I have read this article. And my default position right now, if no one replied to this post, is that my relative is crazy and vaccines are ridiculously safe. Based mostly on what everyone here and across the internet and all the medical professionals who know more than me or my relative think.
What I'm looking for now is why everyone I trust intellectually believes what they do, what are the knockdown arguments against the antivax crowd?
I need help. Pretty much the entire scientific community and everyone I trust as an intellectual role model has said that vaccines are an almost entirely good thing, yet a close member of my family has made a somewhat convincing argument they are dangerous, and I’m terribly confused. I’ve been trying to figure this issue out for months now, and I just can’t. I’ve seen some (a lot of) dark side epistemology used by the more… out there antivaxers (i.e. homeopathy and essential oil people), but although I have a creeping sense some of what my family member is saying is bullshit, I’m still really confused overall, and some of the stuff... (read more)
Hopefully genetic widespread genetic tests will help with this.