The benefits of vaccines far outweigh the minuscule risks, but some parents still question their safety. John Oliver discusses why some people may still feel uncertainty about vaccinating their children, although they – the parents, may have been vaccinated with no harmful effects. A great deal of misinformation is making some parents question the wisdom of vaccination, despite the raise in dangerous and preventable diseases, in areas where vaccination has become a hit or miss proposition.
Some anti-vaxxers worry about the correlation between autism and vaccinations, which has been disproved.Still others cite the amount of antigens in vaccine. In truth, the number of antigens has decreased over the years.There is a small experiment you can conduct without a lab coat to prove this theory.
Oliver suggests following a small child for five minutes to see just how many foreign antigens a child encounters each day; ” If they don’t eat their friend’s boogers, place their entire mouth over the water fountain, or kiss a raccoon they found in a dumpster while playing hide ‘n’ seek'” they won’t have far exceeded the number of antigens in several lifetimes of vaccines!