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This is good. I am puzzled why the anti-vaxxers still exist at all? The original paper linking autism to vaccines was withdrawn, the researcher admitted to frau
by lkrubner 13y ago
This is good. I am puzzled why the anti-vaxxers still exist at all? The original paper linking autism to vaccines was withdrawn, the researcher admitted to fraud, and he was punished by the courts. How can a movement survive when the guy who started it has been so completely discredited? And yet, instead of dying, the movement has grown and new arguments have been invented about why various diseases can be safely ignored.
I this this is well said:
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In light of recent outbreaks of measles and other vaccine preventable illnesses, and the refusal of anti-vaccination advocates to acknowledge the problem, I thought it was past time for this post.
They say that measles isn’t a deadly disease.
But it is.
They say that chickenpox isn’t that big of a deal.
But it can be.
They say that the flu isn’t dangerous.
But it is.
They say that whooping cough isn’t so bad for kids to get.
But it is.
- JohnTHaller 13y agoDon't forget Rubella, part of the MMR vaccine that the anti-vaxxers rail against. Fun fact: Rubella in a pregnant woman increases the risk of autism in the child. So, anti-vaxxers are actually working towards an increase in autism.
- sentenza 13y agoThe anti-vaxxers exist because children are not an issue that 20-somethings spend much mental cycles on. Then, when they suddenly have them, there is a lot of life-upsetting changes, misleading information and confusion. If you don't have at least some pro-scientific inclination before having children, your pro/against vaxxination stance will be a result of pure chance, something you picked up out of the mighty multi-voiced stream of information that having children has plunged you into. At least that has been my observation with the parents around me.
- JackpotDen 13y ago>This is good. I am puzzled why the anti-vaxxers still exist at all? Vaccines aren't "natural". Parents are easily scared and ill educated.