They ought to get a hand in here

As for No. 1, yes. During Smallpox in particular

Cow Pox was used to immunize people quite effectively, when initially tested

that is a funny one have you seen the mark up on certain drugs in the united states lol

Granted the way in which it was done was deemed...unethical by today's standards

1000%mark up

Yes, and do you think that is a general constant world-wide?

Or an epidemic with the ineptitude of our own government?

I, for one, tend to indicate the latter

No. 1 and No. 2 are both relatively easy to answer, actually.

Oh, times like these I wish for the laptop

The results of which have been determined over 200 years of use, and the effects are overwhelmingly positive as a result. Lest we are to believe that Smallpox magically disappeared

Evidently, the result was far cheaper, safer, and more effective than its invasive predecessor

Which requires rudimentary surgery followed by clotting rotten flesh with certain substances

As you can imagine, the efficacy of this was questionable at best, and was horrendously expensive to replicate for the people who received it.

On a slight tangent, what determined the efficacy of vaccines without placebo, bias or other such things was simple.

Redundancy, redundancy, redundancy.

Do the test, do it again, have thousands of others do it thousands of additional times in the last 200 years, test on different critters in different conditions.

If Anti-Vax in general was as thorough you may find an easier time breaking into the "mainstream" with such ideas.

After all, trust but verify.

And importantly, make sure you don't contaminate the samples

number 1 has never been done

EVER

It has, a fair few times.

I believe one of the first was even in 1798

Following the first Smallpox trials

no it has not and they give a lame excuse why too lol

At least, the person was wholly blind

obvoiusly you have not done your research

never been a double blind placebo ever

I think you need to look a bit more into Edwards Jenner

And his experiments

Initial and otherwise.

yawn

Alright, I'll bite.

Define for me

"double blind placebo"

In your terms

omfg

I don't wish to take out of context your argument, after all.

are you fking kidding me right now