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Vaccine Brouhaha

 It is amazing how we create faux outrage out of people speaking their mind, and often the truth, simply because those truths run counter to our "sheepled" view of things. It is true that vaccines, like most medical advances in the last two hundred years save lives. It is also true that vaccines, like most medications and medical procedures often come with risks, regardless of how small that risk is. People should be informed of both the benefits and risks, and the rationale for encouraging the populace to accept the risk (small in the case of vaccines as far as we know) should be made clear. Vaccines have tremendous public health outcome. It also holds small personal health risks. Chris Christy, Rand Paul, and Barack Obama, each have a point. While the two Republicans choose to highlight the personal health risk (with their own caveat), the President opted to impress the public health benefit.

Election 2016: Potential candidates Rand Paul, Chris Christie weigh in on measles vaccine

 It is amazing how we create faux outrage out of people speaking their mind, and often the truth, simply because those truths run counter to our "sheepled" view of things. It is true that vaccines, like most medical advances in the last two hundred years save lives. It is also true that vaccines, like most medications and medical procedures often come with risks, regardless of how small that risk is. People should be informed of both the benefits and risks, and the rationale for encouraging the populace to accept the risk (small in the case of vaccines as far as we know) should be made clear. Vaccines have tremendous public health outcome. It also holds small personal health risks. #chrischristie   #RandPaul   and #barackobama  , each have a point. While the two Republicans choose to highlight the personal health risk (with their own caveat), the President opted to impress the public health benefit. Election 2016: Potential candidates Rand ...