Jogro
Well-Known Member
Since vaccines don't by themselves cure diseases, but only prevent people from getting them, the "direct" evidence you're asking for can't possibly exist.
Put differently, use your imagination and imagine purely for the sake of argument that vaccines actually worked. What sort of "direct" evidence would you EXPECT to see in that circumstance to prove this? What kind of evidence would you be willing to accept as proof? If you can't answer that question, then you're not being intellectually honest about the nature of evidence or proof.
If you like, its perfectly possible to plot incidence of disease and incidence of vaccination over a many decade time course for a variety of viral diseases and show a perfect inverse correlation between the two lines.
Would that be good enough "evidence" for you? Somehow, I think not.
Assuming it isn't, answer me this, how come smallpox was an international scourge for centuries, yet shortly after the widespread introduction of effective vaccination, there hasn't been a reported case of smallpox anywhere on the planet in over 30 years? If vaccination had nothing to do with it, then what happened to smallpox?
How come there hasn't been a reported case of polio in the USA in over 20 years (when outbreaks as recently as the 1950s were commonplace)? Along those lines, why is it that the ONLY places on the planet that still see cases of polio are places where universal vaccination isn't in place? Is that just a coincidence?
Why is it that measles, mumps, and rubella, each viral infections that were almost universal among school-aged American children, now rare to the point where individual cases are reportable incidents, and why is it that greater than 98% of these reportable cases occur in children who have not been properly vaccinated?
