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I think this is superstition. Vaccines are a medical intervention that have almost zero downside. There isn’t some mythical cosmic cost-benefit scale that needs to be balanced in every new technology that is deployed.

Vaccines and antibiotics and germ theory are all things that seem “too good to be true” but nevertheless are. Should we be worried that clean fusion power, once commercialized and practical, is going to somehow cause some catastrophic unknown future event just because it yields immeasurable benefit to us?

I think this is just another form of magical thinking.