Does the CDC give a balanced picture of vaccine risks and benefits?
No. The CDC gives a wealth of information, but also slants it to favor its vaccine policies. For example, it has a chart comparing “Risk from Disease” to “Risk from Vaccines”, but gives no risk/benefit analysis for healthy children. The chart is misleading because it is not comparing any choice available to any real person. One can choose to vaccinate, and be faced with the risk from vaccines (and the risk of getting the disease in spite of the vaccine), or choose not to vaccinate, and be faced with the risk of getting the disease and being injured by the disease. For example, the chart says the risk from diphtheria is “Death: 1 in 20”, but the risk from the vaccine varies from “1 in 100” for continuous crying to a much lower risk for brain damage. But it does not mention that the risk of getting diphtheria is virtually zero, because there are only a couple of cases a year in the U.S. As a result, the risk of being unvaccinated appears much worse than it really is.
