That’s a good point - your kids shouldn’t get the benefit of going to school with other kids if you won’t pay the price of admission - following the vaccination schedule.
We need to tighten vaccine exemptions. They should be for medical reasons and that’s about it. Such exemptions have had serious consequences.
This article points out how easy it is to get such exemptions:
That’s unacceptable. We need to change these kinds of laws immediately.
Bullshit. Wakefield is directly responsible for spreading misinformation that he himself fraudulently created, leading parents to make decisions that placed their children and other people at risk. We should absolutely direct anger and blame toward him for those behaviors. There’s plenty of blame to go around here.
I completely agree, but that doesn’t let Wakefield off the hook for his fraud.
Another bump. The anti-vax crowd has been pushing through a nice little lie about how “the courts confirmed that vaccines caused autism!”. It was enough that Forbes has replied.
Once again it is the old blurb misunderstanding what the ‘vaccine courts’ are for combined with some tripe ruling made by an Italian court once they were done convicting geologists.
Here is a delightful bit of irony re the antivaxers. Turns out that not only do vaccines not cause autism (which, of course, non-WONJCT already knew), but rather there’s a vaccine that actually reduces the risk of the child having autism.
What’s that sound? I think that’s the sound of Jenny McCarthy’s head exploding. 
We should be so lucky.
Wow, did you look at the comments to that article? Serious crazy right there!
But this study was done by scientists so it must be wrong. Only celebrities, bloggers, and next door neighbors should be trusted to provide accurate information.
Ugh, that was depressing.
How much of an explosion could be caused by something so tiny (and mostly empty)?
No. In the words of a Dilbert panel I have saved on my computer, “When you find a big kettle of crazy, it’s best not to stir it.”
Maybe it was actually an implosion.
Nature does abhor a vacuum, you know.
It would be more of an implosion, really.
Can you imagine if these people were around back in the sixties? We’d still be worrying about fucking smallpox!
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When you’re allied with the fucking Taliban you know you’re doing something wrong. Sixth century morals and sixth century science do not make for a pleasant combination.
I’ll be expecting Jenny’s rantfest against kites soon.