This post is in response to Dr. Aurthur Caplan who is the Director of the center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. He also is a contributor to MSNBC. Just today he states in a article for MSNBC that health care workers should stop whining and moaning about mandated flu shots. That by protesting a flu shot, we (healthcare workers) are showing a lack of responsibility to care for our patients and to heal and that we should just get another job if we refuse the flu shot.
Clearly what we have here is pop psychology or mind manipulation to throw guilt on healthcare workers who feel uncomfortable with the flu vaccinations.
In the study of Psychology in the Miligram experiments, humans were studied to see if the majority of people can be persuaded to do almost anything. The conclusion in these studies was that human beings, under conditions that were hardly severe, will follow the crowd, even when the crowd is clearly wrong. These Miligram experiments also showed that most peoples tendency to trust and obey authority is so strong that they will shed all personal responsibility, moral training, or creative volition for the sake of following orders.
If you know that a new drug showed in clinical trials that it caused severe side effects, would you continue to persuade the public that the drug is entirely safe because you see the large financial profit in promoting it.
Or perhaps there is really a more sinister, nefarious motive behind it. Something to ponder........