@Aster
Please, please do some actual research before you make your claims!
“Besides, the flu shot has Themerosol which contains a good dose of mercury. ”
Almost half the flu vaccines this year in the US contain no thimerosal at all.. And thimerosal contains only a tiny trace of mercury; there is no evidence that the amount found in one dose of flu vaccine is harmful.
You quote some information from 11 years ago- vaccine content has changed a lot since then, and the information is no longer relevant.
You then quote a whole bunch of stuff about how toxic mercury is. Yes, it’s toxic. But dosage counts. You will get more mercury from a tuna sandwich than from a vaccine. And, unlike the sandwich, the vaccine saves lives.
And, as we stated, you can choose thimerosal-free vaccines if you are that worried.
“I contracted measles, chicken pox and mumps and got well as did my friends. ’
That’s nice. So did you and your friends contract polio? Smallpox? Diphtheria? No? Well, that’s because of vaccination.
And that’s great that you survived measles and mumps without harm. Lots of people don’t. People are killed by measles every year- 164,000 worldwide in 2008. The number of people dying from preventable diseases is going up in developed countries- because of antivaccination campaigns. From the same NEJM article you mentioned- but didn’t cite the original-
…droves of British families refused the pertussis vaccine, substantial numbers of children became ill with whooping cough, and some 70 children died.
As for your supposed cite from “New England Journal of Medicine, 2007”- it isn’t- it’s copypasta that can be found on any number of antivax websites. The real article-
It’s here. From that article- speaking about money-
Claimants not only want to prove that the federal government, the Institute of Medicine, vaccine makers, and mainstream science are wrong; they also want money. A child with autism is likely to require extraordinarily expensive services — and to have very limited employment prospects in adulthood. Besides, many parents of autistic children may feel better psychologically if they can blame profit-seeking drug companies for their children’s problems.
You misrepresent the actual function of the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. As the article explains, quite clearly, it doesn’t require the parents to prove that their children were injured by vaccines. And, given that millions and millions of vaccinations are administered to children every year, the number of cases VICP handles is a vanishingly small percentage.
As for your last cite, it’s an out-of-context quote from a sensationalist article, referred to on an anti-vaccine webpage (the original is no longer available.) The true story is that the lawsuit mentioned was dropped.