We can do it with baby chimps. The key word here is "most". Why wouldn't you want to make sure the vaccine is safe for "all" babies?
Disregarding the whole animal PETA thing with chimps, since this subject isn't about them and their moral values... We're speaking in global terms. No medication, natural or modern, is safe for all. Ever. What is appropriate, even for the masses, isn't appropriate for some. That's why there is autonomy and privacy in health care, and why it's so important. We can't make blanket statements. We can't make people get live vaccines if they're allergic to eggs--its suicide/homicide, no matter how much we want to stop the flu. But the masses exceed the need of the individuals most of the time. And the masses die of the flu way more often than individual weak ass babies die from a vaccine.
I'm all about supporting the smaller groups of people, but the issue of health care is a global concern.. and needs a global mentality. Babies die all the time of natural causes, and no one gets all bitchy at mother nature--though they do blame doctors most of the time anyways lately. Some babies are weak.. and I guarantee you if they die of a vaccine for a disease, they would have died of the disease had they contracted it--which is far more likely since their immune system sucked when it came to protecting them.
Most of the people you see in the world had at least their first series of vaccines as babies. And almost all of them are fine, functioning citizens. There's hardly anyone alive now that didn't grow up with vaccines. Their effectiveness, and their safety, is seen in the very cities and streets you walk on.
But feel free to do that research for mercury that you admitted is no longer used, and see how that goes. No one's going to care about old science that's already been researched and improved upon. And I'm thinking them taking out mercury didn't satisfy you one bit.. which leads me to believe that nothing is really going to satisfy.
How do you know that she's not just a concerned parent? You are aware that her son has autism, right?
Autism that was not caused by vaccines. She wants something to blame.. and if anything, her son having autism makes her even LESS bias and more subjective and emotional than before. She doesn't want to think that her son was just unlucky with the genetic and environmental dice... like most parents and people do. They want an answer that we don't have yet. So they make one up. It's a complex thing.. just like most disorders. I wish she had an answer for her son's illness, and I even would be okay with it being autism caused entirely by a vaccine.. but it just isn't. She's emotional.. and trying to hide behind pseudo science so that she doesn't have to admit she's just another irrational human seeking validation. (I don't judge her on that part of it at all.. everyone wants validation--and I'm certainly sensitive to it. But she's going about it in a dangerous, and unnecessary way.)
The difference is that aluminum poisoning shares many of the same symptoms as Alzheimers and produces the same tangles of brain proteins. Also, carbs are needed in the body and aluminum is not.
I'll give you a hint: MOST imbalances in the body (deficients of x vitamin, overabundance of x electrolyte) cause "Alzheimer's like symptoms" which can range to being confused (which you can get from a simple UTI as an elderly person) to being unable to process information and permanent brain shrinkage and/or damage (like recreational drugs and alcohol abuse). Alcohol isn't needed in the body at all, yet it's there and it's not going to harm you really in moderate amounts. Like most things in the world. And you'd need to consume a VAST amount of aluminum to get toxic levels enough to cause tangles.. I'm talking overdosing on medications on a daily basis over a long span of time.
We do know. Essential hypertension is caused by an imbalance of sodium to potassium which leads to increased calcium inside cells which then results in the contraction of smooth muscle cells in the arteries. You're wrong about the sodium intake. Go look up some of the studies. Populations that have a 1:2 sodium to potassium in their urine have almost no hypertension.
*almost*. Which means they do. Because they're genetically disposed to it. Somehow. We eat poorly in America--thus we have increased incidence of it. No one denies that part. But it CONTRIBUTES to it. It is not the main star of the show. Because we don't eliminate it when we eat right. It doesn't magically go away when everyone in the population eats right. People still develop it. I don't understand how you're totally okay with the explanation "almost all people don't have x, so its cool" but not "almost all babies are fine, so it's cool".
It's done using surveys. You ask people if they have Alzheimers.
Alzheimer's isn't diagnosed until death. So you can't just ask people if they have it. Also, people with it can't usually answer that question--or most questions. If any. These guys in the study did NOT have Alzheimers, they did not CURE the disease and make it regress and go away in the study... I promise you, it'd be all over the damn place if they did. People would be throwing money at them--particularly supplement companies. Vitamin C would go through the roof. It's a big deal curing diseases.. Trust me, people WANT cures. They'll look for them anywhere they can find them. This study's a quack.. I'm sorry. I wish it were true, though.
Is that also why paint manufacturers don't put lead in their paints? No, that was done because lead in paint was banned due to public pressure.
Public pressure based on studies showing that the paint may be causing x and y. People don't just decide things are bad--that's why things go years and years before they're discovered. Someone working in the industry gets the idea the shit's bad, eventually they bring labs into it, or tell doctors about it, more people complain of similar things, and studies are done.. No one yanked lead out of the paint until someone smart demonstrated WHY they had to do it. People complaining is hardly ever enough to get shit done. Sometimes, yes. But it's only one half of the coin.
And I really feel like we're going in circles here. I'm not here trying to convince you to magically like chemicals or anything.. but your logic, or lack thereof, is what causes a lot of these debates and sillyness.
There's a LOT of really great, good things that hippy foodies and anti-chemical people have going for them that's helping make this world a lot better to live in. And it's founded in good, solid science. Backed by doctors. And researchers. They just take those principles and try to make blanket statements all over the place--and that's where it starts to all go really wrong. Just like science ought not ever make blanket statements lest it be seen as for the birds and thrown out the window as quack.