Suddenly, I feel that when Cass Sunstein argued in his paper that ‘conspiracy enterpreneurs’ enjoy making big money out of making misleading facts that could possibly be quite dangerous to ordinary people, he may have been dead right.
As Clayton put it in your other thread, Cass Sunstein is a “narcissistic, power-seeking, run-of-the-mill statist piece of shit with a big mouth.” He is Obama’s “regulatory czar.” He is the enemy of freedom. He is Big Brother personified. He is part of a conspiracy to suppress the truth and keep us all enslaved to government regulation. To be fair, I did not take the time to read his entire paper about “conspiracy entrepreneurs.” I have, however, read this piece by Jeff Riggenbach, which I think summarizes the situation well.
The anti-vaccine lobby just made some huge gains in playing on fears and paranoia of thousands of parents, who no longer wish to see their children harmed by vaccines.
The “anti-vaccine lobby” is like a grain of sand compared to the monster that is big pharma. The fact that a few concerned citizens have made any impact against the billions of pro-vaccine lobbying dollars is quite extraordinary. The calling card of the pharmaceutical lobby is fear and paranoia, as demonstrated by the media-engineered Swine flu panic that never amounted to anything. The calling card of the “anti-vaccine lobby” is sound science and geniune concern for human health and individual liberty.
These include many well-educated and skeptical parents who take these claims of dangers of vaccines with a grain of salt, and yet are still refusing to vaccinate children to be on “the safe side”.
Well, you may see this as a bad development, but I think exactly the opposite. I hope you come to realize that being on the safe side when it comes to vaccines is often the intelligent choice. There are many other ways to protect yourself and your children from illness.
I am amazed. Are there qualified doctors and bio-technological specialists on Mises.Org? You need to do your duty and fight back the anti-vaccine lobby independently. Please.
The mission of the Mises Institue, as stated on the About page, is “to place human choice at the center of economic theory, to encourage a revival of critical historical research, and to advance the Misesian tradition of thought through the defense of the market economy, private property, sound money, and peaceful international relations, while opposing government intervention as economically and socially destructive.”
In support of this mission, I would hope that medical proffessionals who support this site would fight for the individual right to choose whether or not to be vaccinated. I would also hope they would oppose government intervention related to the immense influence of the pharmaceutical industry.
And when you have parents getting ready to have their children, you can bet they’ll spend a lot of time researching on what is best for their children. They will eventually come across anti-vaccine articles online, and they will not stop thinking about it. That’s why 40% of American parents having children in 2008 refused vaccination. I am not kidding you with this figure.
This is a fantastic development. It is a testament to the power of free speech, the power of the internet, and the power of critical thinking.
That’s how you sell a conspiracy - by only preaching to people who will believe you, and let it cascade from there.
Isn’t that how you “sell” anything? You disseminate information, like we do here at the Mises Institute, and some people eventually believe you or agree with you. Then they spread the information to other people. The word “conspiracy” has become a buzz word to keep people from considering alternative explanations for events. Conspiracies are in fact quite common, especially among politicians and others who have been corrupted by power. The “conspiracy poo-pooists” are often the ones who are out of touch with reality, not the “conspiracy theorists.”
Don’t let isolated doctors looking for money and publicity harm the children of innocent parents. Do something.
Yes, do something. Educate yourself about vaccines. Make a decision based on critical thinking and sound science. Here some resources I’ve found:
Vaccines: The Risks, the Benefits, the Choices with Sherri Tenpenny, DO
Are Vacciens Safe? with Mary Tocco
Vaccine articles from Mercola.com
Vaccine articles from NaturalNews.com
Video of victims of the Gardasil vaccine, their families, and doctors speaking out
And for fun, a couple of anti-vaccine rap videos:
Say No to the Vaccine by Trillion
Don’t Inject Me by Mike Adams