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From what I've seen on social media from the soft anti vax crowd, pediatricians nowadays are pushing for a lot more vaccines compared to their parents' time. There is a reason for each individual vaccine, sure, but the difference is huge and something to be wary of.

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Alternatively: we have more vaccines available today than previous generations, they’ve gotten cheaper, and are (in some cases) more effective.

Problem is the risk vs reward question seems to be ignored in favor of talking about just the reward part. I'm sure there are reasons for not talking about the risk part like you don't want to be too chummy with the anti vax crowd or you don't want to discourage vaccine use but it makes most people's bs detector go off. There is never reward without risk.

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