Dr. Harold Moskowitz's Argumentative Analysis

The issue of the effectiveness of vaccines has been a long standing debate. Whether vaccines have indeed saved humanity countless times or has been the medium through which companies such as AstraZeneca can instill disease and thus fear unto humans for profit is a controversial topic. The one contributor of society that one would find astonishing to find opposing vaccines is doctors. One such doctor that found, in his experience, vaccines to be ineffective and arguably harmful is Dr. Harold Moskowitz. In a detailed argument published in 1983 in the Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy, Moskowitz uses detailed scientific evidence and personal anecdotes of cases he has handled to present his case on the ineffectiveness of vaccines. Moskowitz’s use of an amalgamation of substantial scientific evidence and personal anecdotes works to successfully reach the rational, ethical and emotional aspects of its readers in an effort to present an
Moskowitz starts successfully with presenting the most pertinent data he possibly can to solidify his argument. The presentation of such data is done in such a linear order that the abstract idea that immunizations as being ineffective becomes a bit easier to understand given the evidence. This use of statistics using the most common diseases such as pertussis and tetanus, all of which the masses have been immunized against, has one questioning the effectiveness of vaccinations. As Moskowitz has indicated, most of these common diseases were on a decline when public health and sanitation were on a rise. As with all events, correlation does not mean causation however, it seems as if this same mistake has been done in the case of vaccinations. Without this use of substantial statistical data, Moskowitz’s argument would fail to have logical and rational appeal, thus fail to establish a sound argument and detract from a massive aspect of his