by Steve Halbrook
One of the main ways that pro-vaccine propagandists avoid the substance of the vaccine debate is to imply you can’t understand vaccines unless you are a doctor (of the allopathic variety): and since most of such doctors advocate vaccines, vaccination is a safe and effective practice.
Meaning: you can’t question vaccines! You are not qualified!
Besides this being idolatry of the medical class, how many logical fallacies does this entail? At least we have special pleading (not counting naturopath doctors), question begging (assuming what is not proved), bandwagon fallacy (basing this on “majority of doctors”), appeal to authority (credentials alone don’t prove truth), and hasty generalization (do the majority of doctors really believe the vaccine narrative — or do they go along with it to keep their job?).
Beyond all of this, however, I want to point out the inherent nonsense of the idea that one can only have knowledge on this topic if he has a medical credential: it assumes that knowledge doesn’t come by actually studying the topic — otherwise, anyone, besides doctors, can understand vaccines, so long as they do the research — but by being awarded an “M.D.”
In short, magical powers are conveyed on doctors once they have the approval from the elite. Hocus pocus! Vaccine omniscience is derived via two letters!
We don’t tend to think about this absurdity when the “only doctors understand vaccines” assertion is employed, so I thought I’d bring it up as ammo for readers when dealing such a claim. Unless the “vaccine expertise” of pro-vaccine doctors comes via study (which, again, anyone can do), then they are learning via magical osmosis. Really scientific!
The truth of the matter is that, if all a doctor knows about vaccines is from his “medical training,” then on this issue, he is a quack. Check out these videos on the extent of training on vaccines that medical doctors get.
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