The benefits of vaccination outweigh the harm

Hepatitis B vaccine and AIDS My opponent concedes that the hepatitis B vaccine was likely responsible for 1.2 million deaths in the United States. What we disagree on is whether whether this vaccine is responsible for AIDS in outside the United States, primarily Africa. My opponent claims "The Hepatitis vaccine likely only brought aids to America, while aids existed among humans already before that in Africa and elsewhere." The hepatitis B vaccine was in fact administered to people in Africa. "...experimental HB vaccine pilot tested between 1970 and 1975 in New York City and central Africa." [1] Additionally, "Again, it should be noted that the African "volunteers" inhabited a geographic area consistent with the highest rates of HIV-1 seroprevalence. Among the nations where rates are highest, HB studies were conducted in: Senegal, Cote d"Ivoire, Uganda, Kenya, Swaziland, and the northeastern part of South Africa. According to circumstantial evidence, eastern Zaire bordering the West Nile region of northwest Uganda also hosted such trials." [1] I will give some extra background as to why HIV/AIDS contaminated vaccines were being given to africans and gay men. Back in the 1970"s eugenics was still being practiced. [2] Gays and blacks were demographics that were targeted by eugenics. It made sense that people back then would have wanted to infect these groups of people with a deadly virus, and the hepatitis B vaccine was convenient way to do this. Even if AIDS existed before the 1970"s like my opponent argues, it didn"t become widespread until after the the hepatitis B vaccine was being given, and even then, it was most prevalent in the areas where the hepatitis B vaccine was being given, which includes several African countries and the United States. So it can be assumed that the large majority of AIDS death were a result of the hepatitis B vaccines. Lives saved by vaccines I would like to point out that the sources my opponent uses to show that vaccines save lives are all either from the CDC or a source that sites the CDC. The CDC sells vaccines. The vaccines the CDC sells can be found here: [3]. A company that sells vaccines has a conflict of interest in reporting the amount of lives saved by vaccines. The CDC benefits from inflated reports on the number of lives saved from vaccines because the more lives they claim to have been saved by vaccines, more more likely people will be to buy their vaccines. My opponent claims 17.1 million lives were saved by the polio vaccine worldwide according to the CDC. Although I couldn"t find global statistics, in the United States, England, and Wales, the mortality rate of measles was declining before the vaccine was being given. Many diseases naturally decline as nutrition improves, take scarlet fever as an example, it was eradicated despite not have a vaccine for it. Although the decrease occurrence of diseases that are being vaccinated against could be because of improved nutrition or other environmental changes, the CDC won"t tell you that because that might decrease their vaccine sales. Also, there has never been a double blind placebo controlled trial demonstrating the safety or effectiveness of vaccines. But we do know that vaccines are less than 100% effective, the CDC even admits that the flu vaccine is 50%-60% effective. [5] (although even that statistic is likely inflated) So we don"t really know how many lives have been saved by vaccines, only the likely inflated number the CDC gives us. Vaccines vs no Vaccines I have shown that 35 million deaths were caused by AIDS. Even fewer instances of AIDS did exist before the 1970"s like my opponent argues, a majority of AIDS would have been a result from the hepatitis B vaccine. On the other hand, my opponent"s 2.5 million lives saved per year statistic is likely inflated for the reasons I already stated. Sources [1] http://www.originofaids.com... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org... [3] http://www.cdc.gov... [4] http://vaxtruth.org... [5] http://www.cdc.gov...