ONE MILLION STARS!

I love this and you for giving us this gift... so stealing it!

Brava!! (Pardon any tablet related typos or Kinja problems, my posts are rife with them tonight!) :(

Break them up in your mind... they actually have very little to do with each other, and conflating them might cause you to ignore or overlook data because the brain rage you get from hearing the person go on about anything you're lumping as nutters. You'll never change her mind, and just give yourself a headache. We…

Oh my goodness, I seriously love this so much I want to weep. When I'm arguing with anti-vaxx people, I have often wondered why more scientists/researchers do not come charging in with a scorched-earth policy (not that you have done that at all; you've been very calm), because they know more about how ridiculous these…

Well, I guess it's true that sometimes there's no cure for stupid.

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I also love immunology. I'm an MLT and immunology was one of my required courses! Glee!

Yeah, I was afraid you'd say that. I'll send along your comment and cross my fingers. Thanks for the response.

People who refuse to vaccinate their kids should be REQUIRED to take a course in microbiology so that they actually understand what they're doing. Stupidity has its own vaccine: education.

So, my mother's yoga teacher and her breathtakingly unintelligent husband have said that (a) they don't want to vaccinate their newborn, and (b) are planning on moving to a rural part of a third world country. It's hard for me to be in the same room as either of them because I'm afraid I'm just going to start…

Thank you. You are beautiful.

As a pediatrician, let me thank you 1 billion times, for the work that you do, and for doing the heavy lifting and bothering to post this. I plan on using it as a link for every time I get sucked into one of these discussions. You hit all the major points.

I can't think of any people in my social circle, including Facebook, who are anti-vaccine (even the "crunchiest" of them, and I know some pretty crunchy people), but this post was so awesome, I'm a-cut and paste it on FB, if you don't mind. Do you?

I always here the argument: "I don't get my *** shot cause it gets me sick with the disease!" Isn't that really just your immune system reacting to the "foreign Ag" in the vaccination? The flu shot isn't really giving you the flu shot, it's the immune response on "Alert" (slight fever, inflammation at shot site, mucus…

Thank you! Your comments are really clarifying. Even though I like risking my life, I also want to make sure it's only my life I'm putting at risk. So I totally agree with you, big stuff all the way.

That was awesome, thanks. And to the anti-vaxxers, we all say:

I am educated in public health, and I approve this message. So important, great info. Thank you!

Exactly - and same with the TdaP!

Speed is never a cause of death in an accident. Suddenly becoming stationary? That is what gets you.