I was struck by the deft analogy Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer used to describe the experts who question the research behind the H1N1 vaccine.
” Like the engineers who warned for years about the levees of New Orleans, these experts caution that our defenses may be flawed, and quite possibly useless against a truly lethal flu. And that unless we are willing to ask fundamental questions about the science behind flu vaccines and antiviral drugs, we could find ourselves, in a bad epidemic, as helpless as the citizens of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.”
Granted. But no sane engineer looking at flood control before Katrina was arguing we should “tear down this levee.” That’s in effect what people opposed to flu vaccination are saying .
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