newer ones haven't been adequately tested for safety.
Bullshit.
This line and a thousand equally weak lines are parroted by these imbeciles daily. They aren't interested in the facts, they won't provide any support for their claims. They certainly won't hear any facts that go against their belief.
If anything, the FDA (and similar organizations the world over) are too restrictive. There have been several instances of treatments showing remarkable effect in trials, going through too many years too late for hundreds of victims. [No, I don't have any particular examples handy. Please, do take the time to research things yourself.]
But there have also been cases where treatments were pushed through trials too aggressively, or without enough oversight, and participants died avoidable deaths.
An interesting argument (for those that are willing to hear and understand arguments), is this: how much vaccination is too much? No vaccine is perfect, and there will always be side effects, including extreme effects like death. Likewise, at some point, herd immunity is high enough that we don't have to vaccinate any more than that. Right? Sounds perfectly reasonable.
As it turns out, there is such a threshold. What is it? It's 99.99something percent! There is no single community on the planet which has vaccinated enough to cover all diseases to this level of protection! It seems we cannot possibly vaccinate
enough. And this is the most devastating part of all, about the stupid anti-vaxxers: they willingly encourage people to become victims, to die of utterly preventable diseases, or to be crippled by lifelong effects (polio, anyone?).
I have no qualms about using epithets like
imbecile, or
stupid. These adjectives are not slanderous. They are simple statements of fact, rationally and morally justified.
Tim