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It seems HN is quite eager to upvote vaccine skepticism of all kinds. It could provide quite the distorted view of reality if I were to trust HN karma over the near-universal medical scientific consensus (FDA approving vaccines for 5-11 year olds with a universal vote). I wouldn’t be surprised if HN starts advocating for ivermectin soon.

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Approving vaccines for children is nowhere near being a near-universal medical scientific consensus. Far from it. Lots of people in medicine think that's clearly insane. See the testimony of Peter Doshi to the Senate recently for an example.

> Lots of people in medicine think that's clearly insane.

But not the people who matter. The FDA panel was unanimous. Stop listening to fringe voices in fields you aren’t an expert in. Peter Doshi was invited by Republicans to sow FUD. He doesn’t think the vaccines are saving lives.

The people who matter are there because they purged any rational people a long time ago. The UK JVCI has gone through multiple rounds of purges by now. Government health agencies have no credibility as neutral bodies by now, that's long shot.

Peter Doshi is a doctor and editor of a prestigious medical journal - the fact you consider him a "fringe voice" shows just how far off the reservation, and just how dangerous, views like yours have become.

well, there's always reddit if enjoy the company of intellectual majority.

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