Here is the proof. I am sure that there is more proof out there, but this ought to suffice. Can we debate something genuinely controversial now, like whether water is wet, fire is hot, ice is cold, night is dark and day is light? Because that might serve as a more valuable use of our time.
The Anti-Vaccination Hall of Shame
Some quotes which ought to live in infamy: Jenny McCarthy: "If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles." Bill Maher: "And a lot of diseases that have been they say, whoa, this was eliminated because of a …
Dear Anti-Vaccination Fanatics
Don't ever forget that you are responsible for stories like this one: Measles, a highly contagious and dangerous virus, was thought to have been eradicated from the U.S. with vaccines -- but in recent years outbreaks have been occurring at an alarming rate. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control reports there was an average of 83 measles …
Depressing Thought of the Day
The Jenny McCarthy Body Count may go up quite a bit. It is surely too much to say that she will "wipe out humanity," but it is likely not too much to say that thanks to her anti-vaccination advocacy (and that of others), there will be incidents of sickness and death that could otherwise have …
What Do Katie Couric and Jenny McCarthy Have in Common?
They both encourage nonsensical thinking and promote fear-mongering when it comes to vaccines and vaccinations. Maybe this site also needs to have Couric's name embedded in the URL.
Andrew Wakefield: Fraud
Andrew Wakefield was the author of the Lancet piece that started the hysteria about vaccinations leading to autism in children. The paper's "findings" were debunked long ago, but as we learn here, it is not enough to state that the paper was grossly inaccurate in its conclusions. The paper, in fact, was a fraud, as …
The Anti-Vaccination Crowd Is a Threat to Public Health
Julia Ioffe has whooping cough, and she knows precisely whom to blame for it:Pertussis, named after the elegantly latinate bacterium Bordetella pertussis, starts the way of any cold or mild flu. Then, a week or two later, the coughing starts. That’s because B.pertussis glom onto and paralyze the cilia, the lash-like filaments in your airways that clear it out of mucus, the stuff …
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Remember When We Thought We Had Functionally Eradicated Measles and Mumps?
Boy, those were the good old days: Deadly diseases, once nearly wiped out, are making a frightening comeback in Maryland and across the country. Now — a warning that parents who don’t vaccinate their children are putting others at risk. [. . .] Measles, mumps, whooping cough — all deadly diseases. Until recently — virtually …
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