# Another actress - Kristen Bell - sounds off about vaccines... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 17, 2015, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-actress-kristen-bell-sounds-off-about-vaccines/717896 "2015-04-17T08:31:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2015, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-actress-kristen-bell-sounds-off-about-vaccines/717896/21 "2015-04-18T04:16:12Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > Holy crap your headline scared me so hard. Right, that was my first thought when it popped up in my Twitter feed…_oh no, please NOT Kristen Bell_…so I was really delighted to read it. And then to share that brief moment of alarm with others. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2015, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-actress-kristen-bell-sounds-off-about-vaccines/717896/22 "2015-04-18T05:42:16Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Excellent essay, sadly it probably won’t help. What’s sad is that it might hurt her career. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2015, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-actress-kristen-bell-sounds-off-about-vaccines/717896/23 "2015-04-18T13:30:17Z")
If you’re going to listen to only one pretty blonde actress about vaccines, choose Kristen Bell. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2015, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-actress-kristen-bell-sounds-off-about-vaccines/717896/24 "2015-04-18T13:36:13Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > What’s sad is that it might hurt her career. I’m going to go out of my way to watch anything she appears in and promote her career among those I know. This won’t have any effect I’m sure, but at least I’ll be on the right side here. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2015, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-actress-kristen-bell-sounds-off-about-vaccines/717896/25 "2015-04-18T14:12:57Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > What’s sad is that it might hurt her career. Not too likely I would think. How many directors, producers and casting people are in the anti-vaxx camp? I would think they were out numbered by rational people in their fields. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2015, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-actress-kristen-bell-sounds-off-about-vaccines/717896/26 "2015-04-18T14:19:56Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Not too likely I would think. How many directors, producers and casting people are in the anti-vaxx camp? I would think they were out numbered by rational people in their fields. Your mistake is in counting bodies, so to speak, instead of determining influence. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2015, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-actress-kristen-bell-sounds-off-about-vaccines/717896/27 "2015-04-18T14:37:17Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > What’s sad is that it might hurt her career. I think that unlikely. The anti-vaccine lobby has no power in Hollywood. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2015, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-actress-kristen-bell-sounds-off-about-vaccines/717896/28 "2015-04-18T18:54:44Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > What’s sad is that it might hurt her career. I doubt it. She was in Frozen. She’s not going away anytime soon. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2015, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-actress-kristen-bell-sounds-off-about-vaccines/717896/29 "2015-04-18T19:45:51Z")
I would read it, but anytime I’ve clicked on that Huff bullshit, my internet experience comes to a grinding halt. I’ll just take ya’lls word for it. But I liked her better with dark hair. ---
**Author:** ![eclectic\_wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac91a4/32.png) [@eclectic\_wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eclectic_wench)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2015, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-actress-kristen-bell-sounds-off-about-vaccines/717896/30 "2015-04-19T15:22:29Z")
I think that essay will have a lot more impact than one saying ‘I never had the slightest doubt about vaccinating my kids.’ She’s describing her doubts and showing the process by which they were dispelled. A lot of times, the message that comes across is ‘You should vaccinate because the medical system says so and they know more than you do.’ Vaccination becomes conflated with trusting the whole medical system, so people feel like they can’t vaccinate because they don’t have that trust. There are a lot of reasons not to blindly trust pharmaceutical companies and the medical system - it’s just that those reasons have zero bearing on vaccination. Kristen Bell doesn’t try to handwave them away; she acknowledges them and then explains why they’re irrelevant here. She makes it clear that it’s perfectly possible to have a lot of doubts about the overriding wisdom of pharmaceutical companies and doctors, and still vaccinate. That’s hugely valuable. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2015, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-actress-kristen-bell-sounds-off-about-vaccines/717896/31 "2015-04-19T19:53:18Z")
(sigh) …just browsed the Comments section…depressing, and I should know better. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-actress-kristen-bell-sounds-off-about-vaccines/717896.md?page=1)