dukebdc wrote:

". . . so why are the parents of those injured or killed by vaccines villified for publicly holding the medical community to the same standard?"

Because it is not the same standard. Holding the medical community responsible is like blaming pilots for airplane crashes. Pilots do cause most crashes, but not a single one of them wants to cause a crash, and they make every effort to avoid crashing.

The medical profession is not unmindful of the dangers of vaccination. They do not advocate vaccination callously, dismissing the pain and death vaccinations cause. They advocate vaccination because it prevents FAR MORE illness, misery and death than it causes. Millions of times more. What do you have in mind when you say you would like to "hold responsible" people who cause millions of times more good than harm, at a trivial dollar cost to society, and who make every effort to avoid causing harm? What exactly would you do to them? What are they culpable of?

Truly, no good deed goes unpunished.

Obviously, if there was any way to predict in advance which child might be adversely affected by a vaccination, doctors would take steps to do do this. No doubt vaccination safety will improve in the future. But science is never perfect and never will be, and there will always be a slight risk. People who refuse to vaccinate avoid a slight risk by running a much larger risk! This makes no sense.