Vaccine Pros And Cons Essay

The debate on vaccines has caused distrust between parents and medical officials; now parents are not getting their children vaccinated, the government is stepping and the children are the ones stuck in the middle of this fight. In this paper, we will examine why this debate persists despite the fact that science has proven. What has parents so against vaccines, what is the government doing, and how is this effecting children. All three of these topic areas will help me show what this debate is all about. For about 20 years now the vaccine war has done nothing but grown, thanks to the easiness of finding unscientific claims on the Internet and other social media outlets. You hear of big names like Jim Carry and Jenny McCarthy, who had a son that was given a vaccine and now has autism because of a side effect from the vaccine. You probably say to yourself these are two honest …show more content…
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As we can see in the Bragesio article he states that more money needs to go to the protection and development of vaccines. “It has also been argued that direct financial support for vaccine research from the state ought to increase in order to protect and develop medical options that would be neglected and unexplored if left to the private vaccine industry alone (Blume 2005)”(Bragesjo 2011). The parents believe that they are protecting the child from autism and would rather raise their child by getting a virus that is far less harmful and debilitating. They also believe that the money for vaccines goes into a corporation that is simply making their children develop autism and is benefitting financially from all the vaccines being