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Yet, many antivaxers will no doubt refuse to be "distracted by the facts." Somehow such issues become a "raison-d'etre" for some people and essentially an iden
by CalmQuiet 18y ago
Yet, many antivaxers will no doubt refuse to be "distracted by the facts."
Somehow such issues become a "raison-d'etre" for some people and essentially an identity issue (as PG discusses regarding politics & religion in a recent HN post).
It's just a shame when innocent children are deprived of important immunity because of such zealotry by their parents. I can only hope that the light brought on the possible fabrication behind the original antivax data will provide some "immunity" against more parents being infected by the zealotry.
- alnayyir 18y agoThis is actually a point of rage for me. I hated it when opinionated mothers who are in fact completely ignorant about statistics or science choose to endanger their children like this. Fucking absurd. It's child abuse.
- tptacek 18y agoThere are just as many jackass fathers pushing this.