Just Asking Questions About Vaccines
When anti-vaccine influencers are "just asking questions," they don't really want you to have any answers...
If you have any doubts about vaccinating and protecting your kids, then it is critical that you ask your pediatrician questions and hopefully get some good answers to help you make the right decision.
Unfortunately, parents are often scared into making the wrong decision to skip or delay their child’s vaccines.
And ironically, they are sometimes misled by lists of vaccine questions they are told to ask.
Just Asking Questions
While there is nothing wrong with asking real questions when seeking information to help you make a decision, that’s not usually what these lists of vaccine questions are about.
“One of the strategies of denying established science is to “just ask questions” (affectionately known as JAQing off). The point is to undermine the science by probing for things that don’t appear to make sense, but not in a sincere attempt to understand. Rather, the idea is to ask questions that have already been answered, or that are based upon false assumptions or straw-man distortions of the science.”
Just Asking Questions – Creation Edition
It might seem like they are ‘just asking questions,’ but they are really asking loaded questions and framing misinformation and propaganda about vaccines as questions.
They are ‘just asking questions,’ but the answers are well known, often anti-vaccine talking points refuted a thousand times already.
Consider this recent checklist of “35 essential questions” that includes asking about everything from placebos and glyphosate to mercury and Gulf War Syndrome!
Again, these aren’t real questions - they are anti-vaccine talking points framed as questions.
Consider their question about SV-40…
“31. Could this vaccine have a cancer-causing virus like SV-40?”
35 Critical Questions to Ask Your Pediatrician About Vaccines
Now, while SV-40 was found in the original polio vaccines that were made in the 1950s and early 1960s, that was before we had the technology to prevent this kind of contamination. Even more importantly, it is very well known that SV-40 in those vaccines did not lead to anyone getting cancer!
So the only reason to ask this question is to scare people into thinking that vaccines are contaminated and that they can cause cancer.
Of course, neither is true.
Here is another one:
“4. Will these vaccines' carcinogenic ingredients give my toddler cancer?”
35 Critical Questions to Ask Your Pediatrician About Vaccines
Straight away, you know this isn’t a real question.
After all, there are no carcinogenic ingredients in vaccines, vaccines do not cause cancer, and many vaccines can actually prevent cancer!
This “question” is just a take on the vaccines aren’t evaluated for mutagenicity, carcinogenicity, and impairment of fertility misinformation. That makes it a great pairing for this other “question” they want you to ask:
“6. Will this vaccine destroy my child's ovaries or make her infertile?”
35 Critical Questions to Ask Your Pediatrician About Vaccines
Are you seeing a pattern to these so-called “questions?”
The rest of their “questions” are related to financial kickbacks, placebos, aluminum, gender confusion, glyphosate, polysorbate 80, autism, mercury, DNA, Guillain Barre syndrome, seizures, SIDS, and autoimmune diseases.
There are even two “questions” asking about the benefits of getting sick with a vaccine preventable disease, asking if they can prevent leukemia, brain tumors, MS, asthma, eczema, type 1 diabetes, autoimmune disease, and other chronic diseases?
And that does bring up one theory that we are seeing more of those diseases because fewer infants and young children are dying with measles, diphtheria, and pertussis, etc.
After all, you have to survive those diseases to later develop cancer, right?
So if you really want to ask questions about vaccines, ask away!
Here are some questions to consider:
Is It Reasonable to Want Your Kids to Get a Vaccine-Preventable Disease?
What Are the Greatest Tricks Anti-Vaccine Folks Use to Persuade Parents to Skip Vaccines?
But make sure you are asking the right questions and doing your research with reliable people.
Be skeptical and learn to ignore those folks who are “just asking questions.”
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