Top Five Science Claims We’re Not Supposed to Question

1. Vaccines

My opposition to forced vaccinations is based on my strongly held belief in personal freedom, so that’s not a science question. Some claim that vaccinations cause autism, and the science community emphatically states that there is no statistical evidence to support that. Well statistics are great until you’re a statistic. Given the myriad of side-effects and adverse reactions to vaccines, from fevers to seizures to the occasional neurological malfunction, it is only natural that people have questions. Is the danger in the active ingredient or the delivery system? Do we have to give so many vaccines so soon in an infant’s life? Must we give them in loaded vaccine cocktails for numerous diseases at once? These are all good science questions, but the goal of the experts is herd immunity, and the individual be damned. I am hopeful that the experts will someday take these questions seriously and make vaccines that are safer, but they won’t do that unless the questions persist.