Comments on: Vaccination is up to 99% effective http://www.microbiologybytes.com/blog/2007/12/20/vaccination-is-up-to-99-effective/ The latest news about microbiology Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:34:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: RH Bennett PhD http://www.microbiologybytes.com/blog/2007/12/20/vaccination-is-up-to-99-effective/comment-page-1/#comment-812 RH Bennett PhD Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:05:44 +0000 http://microbiologybytes.wordpress.com/2007/12/20/vaccination-is-up-to-99-effective/#comment-812 The title is so misleading as to sound like a commercial sound bite for the vaccine companies. Perhaps Microbytes has gone over the top. Yes, there is no question that there are very safe and effective vaccines. But they all are not. To use historical retrospective reportable morbidity and mortality data to infer that the vaccines are the sole reason for a decrease in diseaes is junk science at its worst. Carefully designed case control studies conducted by researchers over the world cast good data to suggest that vaccines must be evaluated on a case by case basis and for the population at risk. Not all vaccines can be 99% effective. Such a statement ignores the biological rules of nature. Once again JAMA seems to be a less than a journal and more and more a political and economic mouth piece. I for one do not want my immune system devoting most of its resources to vaccine antigens... The title is so misleading as to sound like a commercial sound bite for the vaccine companies. Perhaps Microbytes has gone over the top. Yes, there is no question that there are very safe and effective vaccines. But they all are not. To use historical retrospective reportable morbidity and mortality data to infer that the vaccines are the sole reason for a decrease in diseaes is junk science at its worst. Carefully designed case control studies conducted by researchers over the world cast good data to suggest that vaccines must be evaluated on a case by case basis and for the population at risk. Not all vaccines can be 99% effective. Such a statement ignores the biological rules of nature. Once again JAMA seems to be a less than a journal and more and more a political and economic mouth piece.

I for one do not want my immune system devoting most of its resources to vaccine antigens…

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