Continued.This entry will be a little different from the usual posts you’re accustomed to read here at The Vaccine Times. Generally I try to stay clear of opinion pieces and stick to facts. However, I feel the need to make an exception this time to express what I believe is the strategy, and ultimate goals, of the anti-vaccine movement. It is not necessarily the case that each and every anti-vax proponent holds these goals, but I think they apply fairly well to the movement as a whole.
So, what do anti-vaxers want? They want to reduce, if not completely eliminate, the vaccines recommended for use today. That is what the slogan “too many, too soon” is all about. Not only that, but they also want, or do not have a problem with, the vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs) coming back. That is what “the VPDs were disappearing before vaccines were used” is all about. But, you didn’t need me to tell you that, you knew this already. What I mean to express here is what I perceive to be the anti-vax strategy for achieving this end result.
Let us be clear about one thing: for all its demands for more science and more research, the anti-vax movement is not interested in science. You probably knew that already; what you may not have realized yet, is that at its core this movement is political and legal in nature. Unless the science ends up supporting the anti-vaxers claims, which does not seem like it will happen, the ultimate goal of the modern anti-vax movement has to be to influence politicians and legislators. Their strategy seems to be centered around these central goals:
One of the best responses:
iframe goes hereThey stopped giving the smallpox vaccine many decades ago. Is smallpox an epidemic because we don’t vaccinate for it any longer? NO.
