tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977625681756554695.post7884925432180599812..comments2024-03-26T13:46:42.738-05:00Comments on 4 Quarters, 10 Dimes: News and UpdatesDavidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03463621516644789183noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977625681756554695.post-11099893173922921772015-06-05T09:15:52.017-05:002015-06-05T09:15:52.017-05:00What's funny about that is that anti-vaxxer at...What's funny about that is that anti-vaxxer attitudes used to be the sole property of the lunatic left, but have now been appropriated by the lunatic right because clearly the right doesn't have enough batshit insanity of its own. If it were only those idiots who suffered I'd say leave it to Darwin and let the problem take care of itself, but the fact that they pose an imminent threat to others makes them dangerous, irresponsible, and immoral, and they need to be treated that way.<br /><br />Did you see that Spain has diagnosed its first case of diphtheria in nearly thirty years thanks to the anti-vaxxer fools? I hope the parents of that six-year-old are proud of themselves. I also hope that they are forcibly infected with everything they have refused to have their child vaccinated against, dropped in an isolated location, and given a beach ball to play with.<br /><br />There is nothing you can do with willful ignorance except marginalize it. But when the willfully ignorant become a majority, when they control an entire political party, when they have their own media outlets, and when they live in such isolated, epistemically closed bubbles that the idea of reality never actually occurs them in the first place, things get ugly fast.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03463621516644789183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977625681756554695.post-83826779424727022892015-06-05T02:56:50.544-05:002015-06-05T02:56:50.544-05:00With the Right Wingers, you are running into this ...With the Right Wingers, you are running into this documented effect:<br /><br />RESULTS: None of the interventions increased parental intent to vaccinate a future child. <b>Refuting claims of an MMR/autism link successfully reduced misperceptions that vaccines cause autism but nonetheless decreased intent to vaccinate among parents who had the least favorable vaccine attitudes.</b> In addition, images of sick children increased expressed belief in a vaccine/autism link and a dramatic narrative about an infant in danger increased self-reported belief in serious vaccine side effects.<br /><br />http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/02/25/peds.2013-2365John the Scientisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03467337009577733553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977625681756554695.post-36250448763250466482015-06-03T21:14:41.903-05:002015-06-03T21:14:41.903-05:00I love the "Credible Hulk" image!I love the "Credible Hulk" image!KimKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18441217660739944973noreply@blogger.com