Black Swan Theory anyone?
I am against mercury in my environment.
I have not been advocating against vaccines, and yet, I see that people who think the way I do are called anti-vaccine. I am for safe vaccines. I want all the disease strains I am vaccinated with to be as safe as they can be. I want two things:
1. I want mercury out of all my vaccines, and 2. I don't like any multi-valent vaccines (DPT, MMR etc.) because it is largely unknown how the immune system deals with an onslaught of several different disease-causing agents simultaneously, especially when they are alive, as is the case with MMR (measles, mumps, rubella).
Why are those two questions not addressed by the government or the vaccine makers? The question that forces itself into my mind is "are there market forces at work that have absolutely nothing to do with vaccine safety and do they have everything to do with wilful denial of a problem?"
That brings me to Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Black Swan Theory:
The Black Swan Theory or Theory of Black Swan Events is a metaphor that encapsulates the concept that The event is a surprise (to the observer) and has a major impact. After the fact, the event is rationalized by hindsight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory
It has been used in the context of the recent financial crisis. But it could also be applied to the vaccine debate.
The vaccine manufacturers are making sure that all the propaganda is used to deny credibility to those of us who like to err on the side of caution. Brooksley Born [http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-12-05/business/25008348_1_derivatives-complex-financial-instruments-president-s-working-group] raised objections to trading in derivatives. She was not allowed to be heard when it would have mattered in 1998.
Is the vaccine situation such a Black Swan Event? The people who are raising their voices about the possibility that certain adjuvants in vaccines might cause autism (and other adverse effects) are merely wanting to implement some basic studies to ascertain that vaccines are as safe as they can be.
I would like to see a study that compares vaccinated children to unvaccinated ones. This has not been done. Also vaccine makers should make individual vials available that have not been preserved with Thimerosal; also they should not contain large amounts of aluminum and other adjuvants. I also would like to see a requirement to make vaccines available that contain only a single disease agent.
Vaccine manufacturers and the government would be trusted more if a sincere effort were made to come up with something in that direction.
I have not been advocating against vaccines, and yet, I see that people who think the way I do are called anti-vaccine. I am for safe vaccines. I want all the disease strains I am vaccinated with to be as safe as they can be. I want two things:
1. I want mercury out of all my vaccines, and 2. I don't like any multi-valent vaccines (DPT, MMR etc.) because it is largely unknown how the immune system deals with an onslaught of several different disease-causing agents simultaneously, especially when they are alive, as is the case with MMR (measles, mumps, rubella).
Why are those two questions not addressed by the government or the vaccine makers? The question that forces itself into my mind is "are there market forces at work that have absolutely nothing to do with vaccine safety and do they have everything to do with wilful denial of a problem?"
That brings me to Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Black Swan Theory:
The Black Swan Theory or Theory of Black Swan Events is a metaphor that encapsulates the concept that The event is a surprise (to the observer) and has a major impact. After the fact, the event is rationalized by hindsight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory
It has been used in the context of the recent financial crisis. But it could also be applied to the vaccine debate.
The vaccine manufacturers are making sure that all the propaganda is used to deny credibility to those of us who like to err on the side of caution. Brooksley Born [http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-12-05/business/25008348_1_derivatives-complex-financial-instruments-president-s-working-group] raised objections to trading in derivatives. She was not allowed to be heard when it would have mattered in 1998.
Is the vaccine situation such a Black Swan Event? The people who are raising their voices about the possibility that certain adjuvants in vaccines might cause autism (and other adverse effects) are merely wanting to implement some basic studies to ascertain that vaccines are as safe as they can be.
I would like to see a study that compares vaccinated children to unvaccinated ones. This has not been done. Also vaccine makers should make individual vials available that have not been preserved with Thimerosal; also they should not contain large amounts of aluminum and other adjuvants. I also would like to see a requirement to make vaccines available that contain only a single disease agent.
Vaccine manufacturers and the government would be trusted more if a sincere effort were made to come up with something in that direction.
posted by Birgit Calhoun at 8:24 PM
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