Eureka!
Someone on a message board recently PMd me to ask my thoughts on vaccines. The board is overwhelmingly anti-vax in sentiment, and this person was interested in a less biased opinion. I sent her some links and a few of my posts on why I am pro-vax. She hasn't written me back, and I was just sitting here pondering and thinking that I bet she got my email, realized I am pro-vax, and sighed... thinking to herself that she sure wishes she could find a *neutral* source to read about vaccines on.
I remember thinking the same thing when I first started reading about vaccines. There are the anti-vax sites, hundreds of them. Then there are the government, medical, and scientific sites, which are pro-vax. There is no in between. Why isn't there an in between?
This may seem silly, but it just hit me right now. There is no in between because the entire body of medical research and science support vaccination. So there really can't be an "in between."
This isn't to say that modern medicine is not without its pitfalls; of course it is. Nor do I believe that vaccines are either 100% safe or 100% effective; they make no claim to that effect, either. But I do believe, based on the entire body of medical science in the world (not just America), that vaccines are very very safe and very very effective.
So I guess I sound biased in favor of medicine, don't I?