We need to go with “dumb” until conclusively proven otherwise. 

HOW DOES THIS NOT HAVE MORE STARS

But then you’d just end up with a Brontësaurus. 

This needs to go straight to the cloning lab for the Jurassic Park treatment

I would love to know where one could find hair mourning jewelry in that condition for as little as 25 pounds.

The needles back then were a lot thicker, too!

My old boss was an anti-vaxxer. I think he thought of himself as smarter than most people and liked that he had “figured out” that vaccines (including flu shots) are a conspiracy meant to enrich doctors and evil Big Pharma. Nevermind that doctors charge all of $25 per vaccine and pediatricians are typically the least…

As the memory of what it’s like to live in a disease ridden community faded, personal preferences started to take precedence.

Yes. I am in my mid 40s and was not vaccinated as a child due to religious reasons. I grew up in a fundamentalist christian sect/cult. (I am fully vaccinated now, as is my child.)

Seriously, when I started elementary school in the early ’70s, “getting all your shots for school” was very much a thing (and very much a source of dread for most of us).

Begging the question, if MMR vaccine “causes” autism, why isn’t my generation overrun with autistic people?  Because I damn well had to have the shot if I wanted to go to school.

There’s nothing in Judaism that prohibits medical intervention to protect life, which is what this is. It’s actually the opposite. So yes, this is anti-vax movement at work. An Orthodox family friend I talked to doesn’t frame this as a religious prohibition, just standard ‘the government is out to get us’ bullcrap.

Vaccines have been mandated in various ways at various points for decades now. The most obvious example being the requirements to attend public school. But you better believe that to head off an epidemic the government can and will start requiring vaccination. This isn’t some new Orwellian overreach; it’s powers the…

Those idiots should read this article about what is happening in Madagascar.

In the petition, four parents, identified only by their initials, say there is “insufficient evidence of a measles epidemic or dangerous outbreak to justify the respondents’ extraordinary measures

From what I can tell there are no clear religious justifications for it as there are plenty of orthodox rabbis in New York telling their people to get vaccinated.  That said the Old Testament and the Talmud are like any other religious text: if you want to find passages to support your anti-vax beliefs (or literally…

Dr. Oxiris Barbot, the city’s health commissioner

It’s a whole thing in very insular Orthodox communities, just like it is in gentile communities. Some vaccines can contain gelatin but the kosher limitations do not apply to injections. the Jewish value pikuach nefesh obligates Jews to put the health and safety of their community before any individual preference, and…

Maybe Orthodox Jews are getting different messaging than Reform/Conservative Jews are, because most non-Orthodox rabbis that I’ve seen talking about this make it very clear that vaccinating is a moral good.

“Hey, remember the time you got polio? ......No? That’s because your parents got you FUCKING VACCINATED.”