If you want a sense of the tenor of the debate over mandatory vaccination, and the media biases in health care, take a look at a segment on this morning’s Today Show. (Go to the link, and on the list of stories, click on, “Should HPV vaccines be mandatory?” for the video.)
What I found most interesting was the aggressiveness of Dr. Nancy Snyderman of NBC in arguing for mandatory HPV vaccination in Texas, and elsewhere. She rejects the arguments of Barbara Loe Fisher of the National Vaccine Information Center, who raises serious questions—such as why we have such a high incidence of autism and learning disabilities, why parents shouldn’t have a say, and why the HPV vaccination can’t simply be an “opt in” versus an “opt out” matter (as pushed in Texas).
Snyderman, to me, epitomizes the media’s pro Big Pharma and conventional medicine orientation. She talks about “protecting” children, which is the standard regulatory rhetoric in such matter as opposing raw milk, in favor of the National Animal Identification System (NAIS), and in favor of mandatory vaccination. She is arrogant in her views and dismissive of any opposition.
Credit goes to Barbara Loe Fisher for holding her ground against Snyderman’s onslaught.
Now imagine Dr. Snyderman multiplied by 100 or more, and you have an idea of why the media is as pro-government and pro-Big Pharma as it is, and why it is so difficult to get reasonable examinations of other points of view.
Recent Comments