# Stupid ignorant pigheaded parents who refuse vitamin K shots for their newborns.

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**Created:** [July 29, 2014, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-ignorant-pigheaded-parents-who-refuse-vitamin-k-shots-for-their-newborns/694297 "2014-07-29T03:09:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-ignorant-pigheaded-parents-who-refuse-vitamin-k-shots-for-their-newborns/694297/87 "2014-08-05T06:43:17Z")

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> [@Guinastasia](#):
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> Of course the doctor should tell you – I didn’t say otherwise.

Fine. I’m glad we agree on that point. 🙂

> [@Was Richard Nixon great or terrible?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-richard-nixon-great-or-terrible/694810/18):
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> More to the point – based on my reading of [_Nixonland,_](http://www.amazon.com/Nixonland-Rise-President-Fracturing-America/dp/B003E7ET0S) by Rick Perlstein – he was not an honest man. He had a sincere dedication to public service and he had a kind of integrity, but his integrity never included honesty. And specifically he never accepted, in practice nor in theory, any notion at all that a politician is obliged to tell the truth to the public. His attitude was always that those in-the-know will make the decisions and “the public will be told what the public needs to be told.”
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> When Nixon was in the Navy he made a lot of money playing poker. He was a very good poker player. He had the all-important skill of dissembling his true position/intentions to other players, bluffing, keeping the poker face – which is not exactly a dishonest thing within the setting of that game, but he seems to have assumed it would be as appropriate and would serve him as well in political life.

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