Anti Vaccination Argumentative Essay

Today, it is no uncommon sight to see parents refusing to vaccinate their children for a myriad of reasons. In effect, these unvaccinated children pose threats to everyone around them, having the potential to spread diseases against which they ought to have been vaccinated. Not only do the parents reject the medical consensus that vaccinations are by far more beneficial than harmful, they also insist that their children, who again pose threats to other children by being unvaccinated, ought to be able to go to public schools or use public transportation, where they are not only at risk of becoming sick themselves, but also of infecting others. All of these things I will discuss in further depth in this essay. But first, I want to make it very clear that there is no grand conspiracy behind vaccinations. Medical professionals have your best interests at heart when developing and administering vaccinations. The process of developing and approving a vaccine is daunting. Not only does the …show more content…
The paranoia that medical researchers are malicious, or at best negligent, and push vaccinations which cause autism. The paranoia that the government is overstepping its authority in compelling irrational anti-vaccination proponents to vaccinate their children. In fact, I think this agenda is part of a broader one; namely, the paranoia of the Illuminati or New World Order. I believe it to be no coincidence that those who are most opposed to vaccinations are often also invested in the idea of a secret society controlling the world. They believe this secret society has a vested interest in culling the population or at least crippling them, so they, the proponents of the anti-vaccination agenda, have invented this agenda to substantiate this belief. They believe the secret society is using vaccinations as the vehicle through which they accomplish their goals of population culling or