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My concern with this line being drawn is the risk of people drawing a line between them and then transferring the overwhelming amount of skepticism of climate c
by luckyno13 12y ago
My concern with this line being drawn is the risk of people drawing a line between them and then transferring the overwhelming amount of skepticism of climate change to such a serious topic as this. All we need is to give the anti-vaccine nuts another reason to shit all over herd immunity.
- chc 12y agoBoth are pretty serious topics.
- ams6110 12y agoI get what your're saying (I think) but vaccine != antibiotic. We're not (that I've heard) seeing the emergence of vaccine-resistant polio for example.
- luckyno13 12y agoRight, I get that, but this article mentions vaccinations as part of preventive care.
- akiselev 12y agoPolio? Maybe not yet, but "vaccine resistance" isn't the same thing as antibacterial resistance. Antibiotic resistance is generally created through contact with the antibiotic but stuff like polio, measles, mumps, and rubella just need an unvaccinated host coming into contact with vaccinated people long enough. Once the unvaccinated host's disease mutates enough (and it never stops mutating), it will start jumping to vaccinated hosts whose immune systems no longer recognize the threat as one it has prepared for by the vaccine [1][2]. [1] http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa060775 http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa060775 [2] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X02006278 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X02...