# What's the next move for the antivax crowd? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 12, 2011, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-next-move-for-the-antivax-crowd/567346 "2011-01-12T15:13:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-next-move-for-the-antivax-crowd/567346/81 "2011-01-20T01:09:45Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > So are you banned at [mothering.com](http://mothering.com) as well? Do they just ban people for knowing what they’re talking about, or is there a cover reason? I haven’t been banned yet - just a warning shot over my bow for daring to post medical facts that anyone can look up on the internet. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-next-move-for-the-antivax-crowd/567346/82 "2011-01-20T01:55:03Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > So are you banned at [mothering.com](http://mothering.com) as well? Do they just ban people for knowing what they’re talking about, or is there a cover reason? They ban any sort of rational discussion on vaccines. If you make one or two posts you may get off with a warning. Keep it up and you will get banned. I tried debating in that forum for about two days. I got two warnings and finally got banned. They argue that other places are pro-vaccines. Therefore the lunatics should have at least one place where they can spread stupid rumors and cheer on disease without being called on it. Another Straight Doper was also banned by them for the same reason. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-next-move-for-the-antivax-crowd/567346/83 "2011-01-20T03:18:28Z")
My current discussion is with a woman who has rejected my two cites because they’re from eMedicine and Wikipedia - my first cite is from Richard Lichenstein, MD, Associate Professor, Pediatric Emergency Department, University of Maryland School of Medicine, and the second one was a published study of chickenpox vaccine, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Her response was that she doesn’t use sources like that to make healthcare decisions for her children. Uh, because they know what they’re talking about? Because they’ve had decades of education and experience? You know better because you’re a homebirth photographer? Because you’re a _mom_? Gah. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-next-move-for-the-antivax-crowd/567346/84 "2011-01-20T07:41:30Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > Then again what can you expect from a magazine that put AIDS denialist [Christine Maggiore](http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=6558202&page=1) on their cover? Bloody hell, she’s not just an AIDS denialist, she’s a new-age Typhoid Mary. The Poxbringer must just _love_ her. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-next-move-for-the-antivax-crowd/567346/85 "2011-01-20T22:46:20Z")
> [@eclectic\_wench](#): > > … > Assuming (just for kicks) we go with the idea that babies do get too many vaccines too early, or that vaccinating against several diseases at once is a lot for the immune system to deal with, how on earth does that translate into ‘Don’t vaccinate’? Why doesn’t it just translate into ‘So I’m going to get my kid the diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough injections separately, at one-month intervals, rather than all at once’? > … Well, there you go, making SENSE :rolleyes: :p. Hell, I _am_ following a slower-than-average vax schedule with my kids. And I have a lot of questions about the prevalence of autoimmune diseases. Translated: neither kid gets more than one at once any more (each kid had several pediatric visits where they wanted to give THREE and I allowed two), not rushing into the latest new vaccine until it’s been out a couple of years, etc. But they _do_ get the vaccines, ultimately. It’s just the responsible thing to do. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-next-move-for-the-antivax-crowd/567346.md?page=4)