News on Vaccines

There is a growing opposition to current vaccination policies. Throughout the years, LINKS has published several articles on the topic as also a homeopathic alternative to vaccines—homeoprophylaxis—culmination in a series of articles by Isaac Golden and a full issue on the topic in 2016 (Homoeopathic LINKS, issue 2/2016). This topic easily gives rise to a black-and-white discussion with one side condemning the other. Clearly, like with anything else in the manifest world, there are pros and cons to each approach. A saying is that every physician has his own graveyard. Logically that would also be true for every system of treatment. To think ‘homeopathy would be an exemption to that rule’ would be naïve. Similarly every treatment modality will have its success. Clearly, vaccination programs have saved lives just like homeoprophylaxis has saved lives and prevented vaccine-related side effects. For the sake of the children in the world and, on a more abstract level, the human immune system, let's hope the best of these two worlds will merge to produce a safe and effective system of disease prevention.

The editor.

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