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> I believe that the efficacy of many of them should be put to the test.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/child-adolesc...

Here's the list. Which ones do you have a problem with?

>I believe that profit-motivated pharmaceutical companies have incentives to make new vaccines -- more sales, and if they're also cheap to make, more profit.this together with some corporate ethics, political regulators, and greedy humans and I think you can see where I'm going with this.

Does this also not apply to Silicon Valley? Insurance? Automobiles? Entertainment? No industry is exempt from human greed and the resulting malfeasance.

> I am just advocating we review how truly necesary they all are. maybe not everybody needs the same set of vaccines? (thou I don't doubt there's a subset everyone needs)

Well, no vaccine is truly necessary. Its preventative, to reduce harm from potential exposure to disease causing antigens. You could go through life without encountering any of those pathogens. Also, its not like a random idiot bureaucrat that lists a vaccine as "needed" because his palms got greased. This is a public committee whose meetings and work you can easily follow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advisory_Committee_on_Immuniza...

>second note: unwritten rule of HN, do not question vaccines.

Can you provide a rationale for your questioning?



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