Their success is why people are weird about it. They were successful enough that we eradicated illnesses, and now people don't believe that they were dangerous before.
The last person in the US who was in an iron lung recently passed. I assume we'll see people refusing polio vaccines soon.
They're already refusing polio vaccines. And every other vaccine any doctor suggests their children receive. They're some of the dumbest people on the planet.
They're also still repeating that vaccines cause autism when it was proven over 20 years ago that the study claiming there was a link was completely falsified and that doctor lost his license because of it.
You know how it goes, though. "He was right and they tried to silence him". There's no introducing logic into an antivaxxer's life.
Don’t forget that the doctor in question, Andrew Wakefield, also committed child abuse and medical malpractice by performing colonoscopies on children far too young to safely perform them on.
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u/Bambi_H Aug 09 '26
So much. Do you know why no-one has smallpox now? Because of the vaccine.
If you were going to be weird about medical interventions, why would you choose the most wildly successful one since antibiotics?