The title of a recently released ABC News article poses a question: "Swine Flu Vaccine: Is It Ethical to Say No?" In order to completely answer this question, we have to look at two things: what these people are saying and IS IT REASONABLE/RATIONAL?

According to Professor Andrew Askland, director of the Center for the Study of Law, Science and Technology at Arizona State University, "Lots of people like the idea of EVERYONE ELSE getting an innoculation and 'IF THEY DO I DON'T HAVE TO'". This is not rational. EVEN IF everybody else is protected from swine flu, it doesn't mean that you are.

According to Kent Holtorf, founder and director of the Holtorf Medical Group, parents would be "rolling the dice" IF their kids were given this vaccine. This is a drastically/radically different idea, against swine flu vaccinations.

However, according to James Hodge, a public health law expert at Arizona State University, "such commentary" "is just not responsible'". OK, Professor Askland is in favor of swine vaccines while Kent Holtorf ("rolling the dice") is against it, so there is no way to tell which "commentary" Hodge is referring to.

According to blogger Szandor Blestman, "So a flu will break out, THE ESTABLISHMENT DRUG DEALERS (i.e. doctors and pharmacists) WILL HYPE IT TO SCARE PEOPLE AND THE MAKERS OF THE VACCINES WILL GO TO THE BANK (i.e. to get money and profit from their vaccine production and distribution). "We as a populace NEED TO STOP BEING DRIVEN BY FEAR AND START THINKING ABOUT OUR ACTIONS". When we "start thinking about our actions", this means not acting or rushing to judgment/conclusions on RUMORS which is all this (hey, it's from a blogger,who, in all likelihood, has no medical knowledge).

Finally, according to Tom Skinner, a CDC spokesman, speaking to Fox News, "Many of the concerns by parents are BASED ON THE PERCEPTION that this vaccine has been rushed into production and MAY not be safe. We understand parents' concerns - they want what is best for the children. We often tell parents (that) THE BEST ANTIDOTE FOR FEAR IS INFORMATION. And we ask them to really seek out sound and reliable information from sources (that) they trust". OK, so who is reliable? OK, the two professors from Arizona State (Andrew Askland & James Hodge) are obviously reliable (they have years of experience in researching and decoding complex information as researchers and teaching professors) and the CDC spokesman should be reliable (otherwise, he would be fired because if the spokesman was misrepresenting facts, that would put CDC director Richard Besser and therefore, OBAMA under the spotlight, which wouldn't be good considering that Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize just days earlier). This means that Kent Holtorf, member of a private organization, is providing a biased opinion and Szandor Blestman, a blogger, clearly doesn't trust a lot of doctors if he thinks that they are ONLY thinking about making a profit with this swine flu vaccine.