"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." - Friedrick Nietzsche
Atheist, scientist, secular Buddhist, rat lover, etc.
Originally from Iowa,I am a biology graduate student at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Parents' fear of vaccinations nearly killed their son - ABC Perth - Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Auckland parents Ian and Linda Williams thought they had made an informed choice not to vaccinate their children, but after their son ended up in intensive care with a tetanus infection they realised they had made a terrible mistake.
This is why the anti-vaxer movement needs to be destroyed. Reading a bunch of garbage by some twat actor and reading a “research paper” by a doctor who has had his medical license revoked because all of the “data” in the research was fabricated does not constitute making an informed choice. How many children need to be sent to the ICU or even die for people to get this through their thick skulls?
Thou Shalt Think for Yourselves: socialjusticeally: thenightmaxworehiswolfsuit: Vaccines are...
Vaccines are SCIENTIFICALLY proved to push Autistic children further into the spectrum, however the government hide these facts and statistics because to own up to what they have done to our children,and to change what they have done would…
I love it when people who understand absolutely nothing about how vaccines/the human body works try to say that vaccines cause autism is scientifically proven. Wakefield is a fraud, and lost his medical licence for it. I mean, please, would you argue that contracting rubella pushes an individual further onto the “autism spectrum”? No. Because it doesn’t fucking work like that. FYI: vaccines are made from attenuated viruses/bacteria. Therefore to argue that the vaccine causes autism but the virus doesn’t is illogical. Also, the amount of other chemicals in the vaccine are not present in a high enough concentration to cause any sort of damage. Also, saying something is SCIENTIFICALLY proven in ALL CAPZZZ LIKE AN ASSHOLE doesn’t make it so.
Sincerely, an actual scientist with a background in microbiology.
PS: please don’t breed until you learn to separate actual scientific fact from sensationalist garbage.
(Source: anarchowario)
How 3 vaccines can save us $63 billion, in an infographic.
Of course, four could save us more. And five, well that means even more are alive.
Six, seven, eleven? Polio goes to heaven.
Ignorance and fear drive some immunizations to nil, celebrities and parents buck the herd and kill.
(via Co.Design)
It’s been almost a year and a half since I visited the Jenny McCarthy Body Count. In that time, it looks like over 250 unnecessary vaccine-preventable deaths and over 20,000 illnesses have occurred because of Jenny and her ilk spreading brain-meltingly frustrating misinformation about the safety of vaccines.
Sure, she’s not the only guilty one, but she’s the leader of a dangerous movement that’s still quite active today.
This from a woman whose website has the following headline up today: 21 Benefits of Enzymes and Why You Need Them … oh I dunno, maybe to complete basic biological functions and literally BE ALIVE?!?!
A society that cares about science more will be a society that cares less about Jenny McCarthy. Keep up the good fight, and keep sharing science with your friends. Someone’s life may depend on it.
What a horrible human being. I would like to put McCarthy in a room full of parents who have lost their children to vaccine-preventable illnesses because they live in an area in which vaccines are not available/not affordable. Just disgusting.
"Mayim Bialik, You Disappoint Me"
She was Blossom. She plays Amy Farrah on The Big Bang Theory. She holds a real-life PhD in neuroscience. There’s a lot to love about Mayim Bialik.
So I was disappointed to find out she doesn’t vaccinate her kids. Refusing to vaccinate is not an individual decision. It affects the whole population. It’s basic epidemiology.
Marziah had this to say on the Wired “GeekMom” blog:
Stop being responsible for the measles or pertussis revivals. Once you blog about it and talk about it on interviews, like the one you did recently for Science Friday, you’re no longer just influencing your friends. It’s no longer a private, personal decision. You’re influencing everyone within earshot. Stop being a disease vector. Stop pretending like the only person affected by your decisions is you. Start acting like the role model you aspire to be.
Someone with Bialik’s influence and credentials shouldn’t be endorsing this kind of behavior. She plays someone very smart on TV, and she should start acting like that instead of sharing a pediatrician with Jenny McCarthy.
I say this because so many of my readers are fans of hers and of her show, and if you believe in science you know that this is wrong.
Wonder if she would change her tune if her child actually got measles or pertussis. Hopefully they don’t, no one deserves to get ill. This type of reckless “personal choice” is deplorable because you not only are putting your own offspring at risk of contracting and possibly dying from a vaccination-preventable disease, you are also putting others at risk.
