Argumentative Essay Part One: Vaccines Sitting in the doctor’s office, holding your precious child, the recommended immunization schedule is being explained to you. You can hear the doctor, but you are not really listening anymore. All of the information becomes gradually overwhelming when you think of them poking your daughter several times, injecting all sorts of foreign elements into her vulnerable, little body.…
Within the articles of the anti-vaccine movement, fallacies of reasoning, misrepresentation of facts, and omission of facts are used to strengthen their argument. Fallacies The anti-vaccination movement is still a social issue that has some…
The current measles outbreak in Canada is due largely from misinformed parents refusing to vaccinate their kids. Vaccines are incredibly safe, and the chances of being injured by a vaccine preventable disease are increasingly higher than a vaccine itself. Many claims made against the safety of vaccinations are unreliable and have been debunked by scientific research time and time again. One of the largest opposing arguments comes from a study conducted solely by Andrew Wakefield in 1998 connecting the MMR vaccine to the rise in kids with autism. Since then, seven large medical journals conducted studies finding no link between MMR and ASD, officially retracting Andrew Wakefield’s original paper and stripping him of his doctoring license due to the release of fraudulent information.…
Although there were no counter claims against the context of the debate, there were several counter claims against the idea of mandatory vaccines which include: Immunizations cause harmful side effects, children who have been vaccinated have been linked to developing autism, parents do not trust the government to make personal decisions for their children, and the amount of research done regarding vaccines is insufficient. Other oppositions are opposed to mandatory vaccines due to their personal religious mandates, and others believe in the concept of herd immunity, the idea that because the other children of the community have been vaccinated, their kids would be protected without having to risk getting vaccinated or the side effects that accompany it. The final opposition was that some anti vaccination parents believed that they did not have to risk their children’s well-being for the sake of public…
In the first article I read listed the vaccine laws for all fifty states, and the pros and cons of making it mandatory for every to get certain vaccines. Some of the pros where saving parents money in the long run if the child contracts an illness, there is a vaccine for, they protect unborn children is a mother has gotten these vaccines, and they can save children’s lives. Come of the cons are there are ingredients that are morally wrong in some cultures, the Sid effects of these vaccines can have serious of fatal side effects, and some vaccines have harmful ingredients. There is a lot of concern among parents and schools because if student are going to school with another student who is not vaccinated there can be an outbreak of a certain…
The school has a waiver that parents can sign, signifying that their children did not receive vaccinations because of their religious beliefs. However, there are individuals requesting that all children be vaccinated because of the children that cannot receive vaccinations, such as those with immunodeficiency disorders and those with cancer. There was a frenzy related to the correlation between autism and the MMR vaccination because the symptoms of autism first occur in the same time span that children begin receiving vaccinations. However, this ‘theory’ was disproved by Mrozek-Budzyn, Kieltyka, Majewska, and Augustyniak (2014) when the study found there was no correlation between children’s cognitive development and the exposure of MMR…
Vaccinations can solve many problems such as common flus and other, more dangerous, illnesses. Many people believe that vaccines can harm their children. However, they aren’t thinking about the repercussion of their child getting sick. I believe that all states should require vaccines for all children.…
Three hypotheses have been proposed to support this: the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine causes autism by damaging the intestinal lining, allowing the entrance of encephalopathic proteins; thimerosal, an ethylmercury-containing preservative, is toxic to the central nervous system; and the administration of multiple vaccines overwhelms and weakens the immune system. Many researchers along with multiple epidemiological studies have been documented to ensure the safety of vaccinations for parents who will harbor concern for their…
Diseases take the lives of millions each year but, with medicine and the proper procedures, they can be prevented and cured. Vaccines can successfully help prevent and cure many common diseases such as the flu, measles, and many others. Additionally, vaccines work together with the immune system to build an immunity against other diseases. But, like everything else in life, vaccines have both benefits and risks. Body Paragraph 1: To start with, vaccines are shots that have a weakened or dead virus within them.…
A massive part of all of this controversial agreement that leads to your personal standpoint is which side of the arguments you found to be more convincing. Similarly, another element of your stand point could be how much of each side of the argument you look into and time you spend researching each side of the story because you can continually find more and more sites and information about both controversial sides. Throughout this assignment I have looked into a wide range of arguments on both, for and against on many vaccination implications. This has lead me to having the standpoint I currently have.…
During the 19th century, there was a smallpox outbreak in the U.S., which it led to people campaigns and related anti-vaccine activity. In 1879, The Anti-Vaccination Society of America had a visit from British anti-vaccinationist William Tebb. When the year 1902 came, there was a smallpox outbreak in Cambridge, Massachusetts. While the outbreak happened in Cambridge, it leaded to residents to get vaccinations against smallpox. In 1905, the Supreme Court ruled that Massachusetts has to make a rule that helped protect the people in any events that involved a communicable disease.…
Heather Andes Professor Baumgartner English 1020 SG1 Essay #4 Rough Draft August 7, 2014 Autism and Vaccines: A World Torn Between Fact and Fiction Children all around the world receive vaccines. Vaccines are used to protect the general public from preventable diseases and they have been fairly successful. In the past 14 years, there has been a decline in vaccination and a rise in preventable diseases.…
Since vaccines have been in effect, the decrease of our population has decreased greatly. Although the pros about vaccines were great, the cons also made a big impact on the patients who were receiving it. Many incidents happened and it has caused many controversial issues throughout centuries. Even though the cons are outrageously dangerous, vaccines should be mandatory to our society today.…
Another recent measles outbreak in Minnesota shows the dangers of exceptions to immunization. A two-year old travelled to Kenya and contracted measles. When he returned to the United States, he exposed four people to the disease; those four multiplied into more than 3,000. Two adults and 19 children acquired measles as a result; nine of the diseased children were old enough to have received the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine but had not. Many of the parents of these children feared a supposed link between the MMR vaccine and autism, but the theory that the MMR vaccine is linked to autism, developed by Andrew Wakefield and 12 others in 1998, has many limitations—“the paper was a small case series with no controls, linked three common conditions, and relied on parental recall and beliefs (Godlee),” and has since been disproved.…
The Vaccine War Many illnesses have haunted the humane race for centuries and throughout that time we have developed ways to prevent them and protect our children. So, why are parents now choosing not to vaccinate? Is the anti-vaccination movement decreasing child safety? Does MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccine cause autism? How much are our children at risk by the MMR vaccine?…