I am shocked. Reading the thread title I expected another rant from an empty-headed actress. Instead she has produced a lucid, intelligent, well thought-out essay on the necessity of vaccines why the fear mongers are dead wrong. I really don’t know who she is but I am impressed.
Me too. She’s right about what she says–she’s the crunchy type you could see falling for this stuff. She clearly deals with anxiety–perfect for fear mongers to take advantage of.
Her essay is exactly they type of thing you are taught to do in response to a hostile audience. I think teachers could use it as a teaching example, even.
I was amused by the sexism inherent in identifying her as “mother, actress” right there below her name. I looked at other articles in their “healthy living” section and they never seemed to specify whether the male authors were fathers.
Is my opinion of HuffPost completely out of date? I had an idea that they were pretty good about a lot of things but their support of woo and anti-vax made them look like idiots. Have they changed?
She should give a class on popular science writing. She personalized it, kept it logical, addressed all the counterarguments, and cited everything.
Most of the comments were good, with a few loons of course. My favorite was the the anti-vaxer who gave her occupation as “Energy Healer.” There should be a law forbidding her to even say the word “science”.