The immune system is an important and complex part of the human body, guarding it against bacteria and other foreign substances that would make you sick. When you’re born, you’re immune system is pretty susceptible to different diseases because you’re body doesn’t know how to fight them yet. Vaccinations help to strengthen your immune system by introducing weak and harmless versions of a disease to your body. Antibodies then attack the disease, getting rid of it, which helps to protect your body from the real and potentially harmful disease in the future.
Getting vaccinated, however, isn’t just important for your own health and safety; it is important for the wellbeing of everyone else around you. It’s much harder for a disease to spread …show more content…
Wakefield claimed that he had found evidence of vaccinations causing inflammation in the stomach lining that made it’s way to the brain, which lead to children developing autism. This caused significant fear through the public. Although the study was later found to have used skewed data and was retracted by most of it’s authors, people still use this study to support their claims. I, personally, have never understood the autism link and the fear it perpetuates. This myth has been disproven again and again, but still has a strong influence on parent’s decision to vaccinate their kids. Researching this topic, I found numerous credible sources denouncing the link between autism and vaccinations, detailing all of the scientific inaccuracies it contains. I didn’t find a single credible source promoting the myth. Some of these people like to use the ‘fact’ that as vaccinations increased so did autism cases. Anyone who has taken a basic statistic class, however, can tell you that correlation does not imply causation. Most scientists credit the rise in autism cases to “expanded diagnostic criteria, more awareness of the disorder, diagnosis at earlier ages, and the recognition that ASD is a lifelong condition”
Getting vaccinated, however, isn’t just important for your own health and safety; it is important for the wellbeing of everyone else around you. It’s much harder for a disease to spread …show more content…
Wakefield claimed that he had found evidence of vaccinations causing inflammation in the stomach lining that made it’s way to the brain, which lead to children developing autism. This caused significant fear through the public. Although the study was later found to have used skewed data and was retracted by most of it’s authors, people still use this study to support their claims. I, personally, have never understood the autism link and the fear it perpetuates. This myth has been disproven again and again, but still has a strong influence on parent’s decision to vaccinate their kids. Researching this topic, I found numerous credible sources denouncing the link between autism and vaccinations, detailing all of the scientific inaccuracies it contains. I didn’t find a single credible source promoting the myth. Some of these people like to use the ‘fact’ that as vaccinations increased so did autism cases. Anyone who has taken a basic statistic class, however, can tell you that correlation does not imply causation. Most scientists credit the rise in autism cases to “expanded diagnostic criteria, more awareness of the disorder, diagnosis at earlier ages, and the recognition that ASD is a lifelong condition”