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What ever happened to critical thinking?

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In 1980 a group of us medical students were run through the vaccination line during Army basic training. At a certain point we were asked, "Do you want your smallpox vaccine in the right arm or the left?" Being genius med students we pointed out that there had not been a reported case of smallpox in the entire world since the early 1960s. They told us, "Well, the Russians have enormous freezers full of the smallpox virus." We all said, "The left arm will be just fine."

In 1983 we were all required to get the brand new hepatitis B vaccine. No choice, no discussion. Viruses don't care about your fucking personal autonomy or your politics. Sick soldiers can't fight or do their jobs. Rommel lost North Africa because half of his troops were down with dysentery, not because he wasn't a brilliant battlefield general.

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