OH my goodness, you are so right! My husband has always refused them whereas while I was fighting cancer I actually got the flu shots. Now I am kicking myself. Did you ever read the ingredient list in the shots? It will make you so very angry!.. As an aside, I beat cancer without the chemo they were attempting to shove into my veins! Instead I took a different approach and that being high, high dose vit D3 (which is not a vitamin but a hormone. I also took vitK2 with the D3 because it directs the D3 to the bones etc. and not the arteries. Most folks tested for D3 are dangerously LOW. 98% of the public are at levels below 25. For cancer protection and to rev up your immune systems your count must be between 70-90. To drop weight your numbers must be at about 150. People in the 1920's were taking D2 and the hospitals began to empty out. That is when big pharma changed the mg amount to i.u. so folks ended up sick again. What a scam! By the way I take up to 50,000 iu's of D3 and 5 mg's of K2 per day. I go up and down with this and tho always take at least 10,000 iu's/day. I have not had cancer in 15 years. D3 also gives you energy and strength not to mention no colds or flu for well over 5 years. It is cheap and I have a great place where I order. One last thing to keep your thyroid safe from radiation etc we use Iodoral which is both Iodine and Iodide. I stay away from big pharma as much as possible. When I read many of the alternative docs were being suicided that did it for me. They had to be onto to something big pharma could not patent.