Monday, May 01, 2017

A Spotty Record

Measles Danger Now Real in US: Outbreak Spreads After Refugees Choose Islamic Rules for Vaccines [More]
These guys better watch it: SPLC and Grey are going to shame them as haters.

2 comments:

Steve said...

It gets even better.

Speaker says vaccines and autism may be linked, a view denied by public health officials

Henry said...

I’m in favor of vaccinations, but we should be on our guard not to champion this argument:

"vaccines and autism… any link has been thoroughly discredited by the scientific community”

when we rightly decry the vacuousness of this argument:

"there is now an overwhelming scientific consensus that global warming is indeed happening and humans are contributing to it.”

As a survivor of the “every kid gets measles and it’s no BFD” period, I find the argument that measles is a hell of a lot less dangerous than autism to be sufficiently rational. If we were having this argument over polio or smallpox it would require serious soul-searching, but having it over measles seems to be just more snowflakery.