Ben Stein said in a resent interview that is was scientists sending people to the gas chamber in the holocaust^[1] and in his movie Expelled he says science (specifically the Theory of Evolution) leads to atheism and genocide. Anti vaccinations nuts claim the vaccines lead to Autism despite an overwhelming amount of evidence that says theres no connection between vaccines and autism^[2][3][4]. There are many people who demonize modern medicine claiming its not trying to help you or cure you but keep you sick so doctors and “big pharma” can make money off you while they promote untested “alternative medicines” some of which can’t work.

A little girl with Smallpox

A man with Typhus

Why is it that people demonize things that have saved so many lives and given us so much?

Science has given us so much. From computers to modern air travel to instant communication with any one in any part of the world.

Vaccines have saved countless lives, diseases like Small Pox, Mumps, Measles, Polio and many more. Parents use to live in fear of there children getting Polio, many who caught it where even restricted to an iron lung. Small Pox is a horrible patently fatal disease that causes a horrible rash painful blisters all over the persons body.

Modern medicine has saved countless lives and has even brought people back from death. Cancer use to be a death sentence but now we can remove it. Before antibiotics most infections where fatal. With modern medicine people with heart disease or diabetes can live longer heather lives.

1. http://wolfsden.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/ben-stein-view-of-science/
2. http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2008/05/12/vaccines-do-not-cause-autism/
3. http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=14
4. http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2008/01/another_very_bad_day_for_antivaccination.php