In response to Dr. Caplan’s Article Your Kid Has No Right to Make My Kid Sick!
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You are absolutely right, Dr. Caplan. If your kid gets vaccinated and is shedding infectious viruses which make my kid sick, your kid’s vaccination has endangered my kid and neither of you has a right to do that (nor do you or your wife, for that matter, given that people shed infectious organisms for 21 days or longer after nasal vaccination and other vaccinations!).

Further, if your kid is unlucky enough to be vaccinated (and I am sure he/she would be, given your public positions on the topic) and develops the increasingly common phenomenon of vaccine failure (getting the disease against which your kid has been vaccinated), your kid’s infection threatens my kid’s health during the incubation period before symptoms emerge, given that these infectious diseases are often more virulent than those which occur from native strains in un-vaccinated people.

Let’s face it, Dr. Kaplan: herd immunity does not exist. If your kid’s vaccine is effective, your kid won’t get the disease(s) against which he/she has been protected by the vaccine. If my kid is unvaccinated, and you can be sure that he/she will be, complete with legal exemptions, the only dangers from vaccines are 1) contagion originating among the vaccinated and 2) the legal bullying which your continuing harangues support and are used to justify.

There are two possibilities that I can see here:

1. You really are so genuinely scientifically uninformed that you believe what you are saying. After all, you are a bio ethicist, not a scientist. You offer up opinions but are not trained as a scientist. Dr. Paul Offit, whom I believe you know, says that we need ‘Journalism Jail’ for people who write and speak about vaccine science without proper qualifications. Bio Ethics is hardly a proper qualification to speak on scientific matters.

In that case, I suggest that you take the time to become informed enough to revise your positions on vaccinations since they are not supported by either reproducible science or epidemiology. I will remind you that Sanjay Gupta, MD, who is trained in these areas, recently decided that his position on hemp was wrong and publicly revised it, much to his credit.

2. You serve another master besides truth or ethics and it is profitable for you to disseminate incorrect information. If that is the case, there is something very biological about this, since the impulse to acquire goods and power is part of the biological matrix we are built upon, but there is certainly nothing ethical about it.

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Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima