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Nobody is "ignoring" anything. The process for approval includes three rounds of trials with tens of thousands volunteers being closely monitored in a standard, double-blind protocol.

Some side effects are expected. A needle hurts, for example. So the very first act does, indeed, harm. If you consider that needles have been a standard feature of medicine for a while, you may want to rethink your interpretation of that "first, do no harm" principle.

Before needles it was leeches and bloodletting and mercury, by the way. So I don't think harm avoidance was ever as paramount as Paramount may make it seem.

Anyway, and I'm not entirely sure why this needs spelling out, but treatment decisions are always trade-offs involving uncertainties.

Vaccines seem to specifically elicit fear in some people who, as far as I can tell, have a surprisingly large overlap with the group that was chucking aquarium cleaners like a goldfish with OCD just a few months back. (My bafflement here is not rhetorical. If you have an explanation that doesn't involve autism, I'm eager to hear it)




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