You Can't Trust What Your Government Tells You About Vaccines

How can you trust what your government tells you about vaccines?

Wasn't it the government that:


 * was responsible for the Tuskegee syphilis experiments?
 * told you that Thalidomide was safe? (actually no, Thalidomide was never FDA approved in the US)
 * said tobacco was safe? (actually, the first report from the Surgeon General saying that cigarette smoking was a cause of lung cancer came out in 1964
 * allowed lead in paint and gasoline? (it was the EPA that said that lead posed a public health threat)
 * DDT was safe?

Arguing that you can't trust the government, scientists, or doctors because of what they have done in the past is mostly a variation on the 'science was wrong before' argument.

Either way, it is a logical fallacy that in no way offers a good reason to avoid vaccines.

After all, wasn't it the government that recommended taking lead out of gasoline and paint?

For more information:


 * Science was wrong before
 * Oh yeah? Thalidomide! Where’s your science now?
 * Debunking the "mistakes science made" tropes?
 * Galileo gambit
 * The appeal to “science was wrong before”
 * A crank’s favorite gambit: Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus
 * Cultural Perspectives on Vaccination
 * The Guatemala syphilis experiment and medical ethics in science-based medicine
 * Revisiting the issue of ethics in human experimentation
 * “Lead Wars” – The politics of prevention and responsibility