I'm not speaking in "all or nothing" terms, Rapaire. I'n sure that some drugs are genuinely useful and beneficial. Some vaccinations may well be genuinely useful and beneficial. I suspect, however, that many present day drugs and vaccines and forms of conventional treatment are not genuinely useful at all...and are downright harmful. But they ALL make money for someone, don't they? Therefore they are aggressively advertised in print, on radio, and on TV and the Internet...and let the buyer beware!

However, here's my key point. I wish to live in a society where we are EACH free to make our own choices about what sort of treatment we opt for. If you wish to take a flu shot, then I think you have every right to, and I won't stand in your way. If I wish not to take a flu shot, then I expect to also be free to make that decision without some government or medical association or law overriding my decision in that regard and penalizing me for it.

Agreed? Let's live in a society where we are all legally free to decide whether or not to avail ourselves of various specific forms of medical treatment...or to opt for some other form of medical treatment...or to opt for some form of self-treatment (meaning dietary change, exercise, etc)... whichever approach we find suitable.

That's freedom. I favor individual freedom and freedom of choice.