Here's a good rule of thumb: If the term "vaccine choice" or "informed consent" appears in the name of a vaccine-related organization, that organization is antivaccine. If there's an exception to this axiom, I have yet to see it in 20 years of combatting antivax misinformation.
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Antivaxers co-opt the term "informed consent," but their version of it is a distorted fun house mirror reflection of real informed consent. What antivaxers mean by "informed consent" and what you or I mean by it are at best related only by coincidence.
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I've been labeled as such. Informed consent is giving permission for a procedure or intervention when the risks, benefits and alternatives for said intervention are explained and known. Have I left out anything?
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That is your interpretation. I believe that people mean informed consent when they write so. And by that they mean balanced info about known pros and cons of a certain vaccine. And that should make it clear that it is a good idea to get the vaccine - otherwise there is a problem.
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Out of curiosity, do you similarly believe, for example,
@RobertKennedyJr when he describes himself as "fiercely pro-vaccine" or Andrew Wakefield when he says he is "not antivaccine" out Jenny McCarthy when she says she is a "vaccine safety activist"? - Show replies
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