[guraf]

Ridiculing people who are worried about long term effects of something that has been in use for only a few years is such an HN thing.

There's countless precedent for things once touted as being safe to turn out incredibly damaging. We just don't know the long term effect yet. Please spare me with the "but there's no mechanism for it to do harm!!!!!" the same was said for all the other drugs that ended up causing cancer or malformed babies and were only pulled from the market after decades of "nutjobs" being dismissed for suggesting a link.

[lern_too_spel]

The vaccines that people are getting ridiculed about have been administered to more than 5 billion people. If there were any such extremely damaging long term effects, we would have seen some already.

[noitpmeder]

I think many people would disagree with your idea of what "long term" means...

[lern_too_spel]

I think most people understand that the physical processes that would result in long term complications would show signs earlier in some individuals and later in others.

[gumballindie]

That is true. But I wish there was more evidence presented for it. Crying wolf does more harm than good.