Vaccination is beneficial for humanity

Pro has reminded me that our debate is on whether vaccinations are beneficial for humanity, not vaccination is humanity's only saviour. Pro forgets that in Round 2 he himself claimed that "Vaccination is humanity's only hope of surviving in the future". Therefore Con requests Pro to read the topic of the debate properly and to think carefully before arguing. Copied from TIME Health dated 29/11/2012: "Protection from Whooping Cough Vaccine Wanes Over Time" "Vaccines are by far the best defense against pertussis, or whooping cough. But protection among kids dwindles with every year since the last dose of vaccine, a new CDC study finds" "Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Protection (CDC) report in the Journal of the American Medical Association that while vaccines do work well in protecting against childhood infection with the pertussis bacterium, or whooping cough, that the strongest immunization occurred among kids in the year after their last shot than among those who finished their full immunization series more than five years ago. This is the first-ever study to test the long-term effectiveness of current pertussis vaccines, which contain snippets of the pertussis bacterium and were introduced in the 1990s. The newer shots trigger fewer adverse reactions than previous versions, which contained whole pertussis bacterial cells, but public health officials had been concerned that the effectiveness of the shots weakened over time. The findings are significant in light of the major pertussis outbreaks in the U.S. over the past few years, which have caused illness in tens of thousands nationwide. Earlier this year, the CDC recommended that adults over age 19 also receive another dose of the older, whole cell pertussis vaccine to maintain immunity against the bacterium. Pertussis is highly contagious and sometimes fatal; symptoms including violent, uncontrollable coughing that can lead to breathing problems, pneumonia and convulsions" Therefore it is right to say to say that the immunity provided by the whooping cough vaccine is not 'total' and does fade away with time. Con wishes to say that vaccinations can be beneficial in some cases, without any doubt , but it not enough to label all vaccines as safe. In your given example of polio, it is evident from the graph that polio rates had already dropped sharply before vaccines were created. The fall in polio rates can be attributed more to better hygiene, nutrition and sanitation than the polio vaccines. If these vaccines do not actually work then how can we possibly say that they are beneficial for humanity? If there is no evidence that it has attributed to the elimination of epidemics, then how can one possibly claim that vaccines are good for us? Vaccines also contain a lot of toxins. Metals like mercury and aluminium are commonplace in vaccines. Plus drugs like Formaldehyde and 2-phenoxyethanol are known to have adverse effects on children like the depression of the nerve system and dehydration. The insert for the DPT vaccine from Sanofi Pasteur warns that, "A review by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) found evidence for a causal relation between tetanus toxoid and both brachial neuritis and Guillain-Barr" syndrome [pain and loss of nerve and motor function]." Are we really willing to take that gamble with human life? Are we willing to give our children these harmful vaccines thinking that its benefits are going to be worth it? Are we going to pretend that we are doing something for the greater good? There is clear cut evidence that vaccines contain toxins and everytime we vaccinate a child, we are making him a potential victim of the effects of these toxins. We should all stop for a moment and think "Is this all necessary?". Is putting a child through all this danger really necessary? No it is not. And how can we say that children need these vaccines when ,in many cases, they have been proven not to work? Are we not doing this all for nothing? Risking a child's life for medication that does not even work. We all really need to think about this once. Citations: http://thepeopleschemist.com... http://healthland.time.com...