[Big_Monkey]

"Why would ANYBODY wanting to stop the epidemic then, do a “study” designed to exonerate a vaccination program?

I don't think that the reason this study was done is to "exonerate" the vaccination industry. But, for the purposes of this discussion, let's stipulate that indeed the only reason was to validate the safety of modern day vaccines.

That is a great reason.

Vaccines are safe. Period. The real threat of increasingly un-vaccinated children is exponentially greater than the (to use your words) pseudo-scientific lynching of vaccines and their makers. Vaccines manufactured by "Big Pharma" that have all but completely eradicated real and dangerous disease that ravage parts of the undeveloped world.

In short, THANK GOD for the US vaccine industry the last 50 years. The benefit they've brought to the US and mankind is INCALCULABLE.

[SecAmndmt]

“Vaccines are safe. Period.”

Show me the double blind studies with placebo.

They don’t exist.

Vaccines are an abomination. Thank God they are voluntary.

[count-your-change]

Quite so. The old cemeteries are full of children, several from the same family often but the anti-vaccine crowd knows nothing of this. It's all big pharma conspiracy.