Things which should be cancelled 10: Politicizing science

Before August, this is the CDC definition of a vaccine:

Immunity: Protection from an infectious disease. If you are immune to a disease, you can be exposed to it without becoming infected.

Vaccine: A product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease, protecting the person from that disease. Vaccines are usually administered through needle injections, but can also be administered by mouth or sprayed into the nose.

Vaccination: The act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease.

Immunization: A process by which a person becomes protected against a disease through vaccination. This term is often used interchangeably with vaccination or inoculation.

After August 26th 2021 it became this:

Immunity: Protection from an infectious disease. If you are immune to a disease, you can be exposed to it without becoming infected.

Vaccine: A preparation that is used to stimulate the body’s immune response against diseases. Vaccines are usually administered through needle injections, but some can be administered by mouth or sprayed into the nose.

Vaccination: The act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce protection from a specific disease.

Immunization: A process by which a person becomes protected against a disease through vaccination. This term is often used interchangeably with vaccination or inoculation.

Clearly they want the COVID "treatment" to be considered an immunization, but it couldn't meet the real definition. So they changed the definition, not the treatment. It's for political purposes they did this, because the Federal Government (that is, the Biden administration) wants to be seen as doing more for us than they did. It's the slimiest way out of the problem they faced, that they were not delivering an immunization, just a treatment.

Merriam-Webster changed their definition too.

The World Health Organization changed theirs in the early days of COVID:

Bah! A pox on them all! These definitions are not improvements to the state-of-the-art because real vaccines are old hat to the medical field for the last 70 years (since Salk and the polio vaccine), and the old vaccine definitions are correct. Now they have muddied the waters so badly that the drug companies can release almost anything that helps "stimulate an immune response" and call it a vaccine. Anything that gives you hay-fever is now a vaccine! Pollen is a vaccine! Black mold is a vaccine! Bee stings are a vaccine. Tetanus infections are a vaccine! Welcome to the new definition. The CDC is primarily responsible for this fiasco, but the person in charge there has been working hard to not be noticed by anyone. Rochelle Walensky. Bet you've never heard of her before.

UPDATE June 2022:

Science demands rigorous adherence to the evidence, and I see that adherence lacking in all news-reported science. Here is Thomas Sowell on the subject of trustworthiness in science:

You can stop at 4:40 when the video maker adds his own stuff, which I don't think is very informative, as examples of how science is blended with politics to demonstrate the use of ill-use of science to create political power.

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