To Vaccinate or Not

[Ian David]

To Vaccinate or Not

2UE's Tracey Spicer spoke to The Australian Vaccination Network Inc. President, Meryl Dorey about the information that she has put up on her website about Vaccination and how we shouldn't vaccinate our children

More:
http://www.2ue.com.au/blogs/2ue-blog/to-vaccinate-or-not/20110107-19i9a.html

Hat-tip to:

BadAstronomer
Holy mackeral! Aussie interviewer Tracey Spicer tears antivaxxer Meryl Dorey a new one: http://is.gd/khcTU #MadeOfAwesome
http://twitter.com/BadAstronomer/status/23257330346885120



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[xchrom]

1. awesome good stuff. nt

[HuckleB]

9. Indeed.

[shraby]

2. I put genealogy information on my website and it includes

information about the cemeteries. Many times I've entered the lion's share of a family that succumbed to diseases that are no longer a threat because of vaccinations. Not vaccinating children is one of the stupidest things a parent can do..they are just asking for these killer diseases to make a comeback.

[endless october]

3. Wakefield's fraud has done real damage.

[BrightKnight]

8. I don't what the body count is now but he murdered a very large number of children for money. Also,

the money and energy being spent to counteract his BS can't be used to solve real public health problems.

[HuckleB]

10. And yet the pro-disease/anti-vaccination crowd keeps pushing its filth.

And it is tolerated at DU. I don't understand how a progressive site can tolerate anti-science nonsense. It's antithetical to the progressive cause.

[BuddhaGirl]

11. a progressive site recognizes differing opinions and beliefs

and they should be tolerated.

Shutting people down is not progressive.

[HuckleB]

12. Being anti-science is not progressive, it is regressive.

That is the part you choose to ignore.

[BuddhaGirl]

13. "anti-science" is your opinion

which you are able to express on a progressive discussion board :hi:

[HuckleB]

14. Unfortunately, it's not just an opinion.

It's clear that anti-science scams and frauds are allowed to be pushed at DU. These scams and frauds are anti-science and anti-human, because they truly serve no viable purpose for the good of humankind. It is ludicrous to pretend that such scams and frauds are viable with true progressivism and true liberalism.

[laconicsax]

15. +1

[trotsky]

16. Fact is, there are MANY opinions that are not allowed to be expressed here.

And for good reason. Go ahead and post a racist or homophobic opinion and see how you are welcomed on a progressive discussion board.

[BuddhaGirl]

17. stating the obvious

as if we didn't know. :eyes:

[trotsky]

18. Well, clearly you didn't. n/t

[xchrom]

4. Kick

[uppityperson]

5. k&r for putting the links together so it is easier to find and kick and read

[semillama]

6. Addendum to your post

the cartoon should be attributed to www.toothpastefordinner.com.

He's a pro-science, anti-woo type that everyone should read daily.

I was also heartened to see my favorite webcomic artist, Randy Milholland of Something Positive, going after the anti-vaccination bunch on his twitter feed.

[HuckleB]

7. “Piltdown medicine” and Andrew Wakefield’s MMR vaccine fraud

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=9552