You should be the most pro-vaccination of all of us. Your child relies on herd immunity to keep him safe from illnesses, and that herd immunity is eroding. He is exactly why it's important for everyone without a valid medical reason to vaccinate, and exactly who this ridiculous anti-vaxxer movement is endangering.

I disagree here. Vehemently. This is not a civil rights issue, it is a public health issue. Because not vaccinating can harm (or kill) other people who did not make the same choice.

I don't drink. I don't like the risks of drinking. However, I'm still required to assume the risk of being killed by a drunk driver, because hey, free society.

Yikes. You've crossed the bounds into wanting to police other people's speech!

The irony is that drunk driving rates have been reduced in the past few decades. Due in no small part to huge efforts by both the government and advocacy groups to stigmatise it. Drinking and driving used to be normal, now if you do it everyone thinks you're an asshole. Shaming has saved thousands of lives.

This is not true at all. It is very scientific to understand the risks involved with widespread anti-vaccination sentiment. Given a strong enough foothold in enough of the population, a disease absolutely can mutate into a new form that our vaccines are no longer effective against. ANY epidemiologist will tell you…

If someone wants to reject the facts, that's their business, in a free country

If someone wants to reject the facts, that's their business, in a free country.

BakaPenguin is correct. We pay ridiculous rates for internet, and we are actually lagging behind in getting broadband to rural areas. I have several friends who, the fastest internet available to them, is 3Mbps down, and 512Kbps up. And this is the fastest they can get, and it's not stable at all. (Since it's…

The best arguments against mmgw are not scientific at all. They're all along the lines of "oh it's ridiculous to think that humans are powerful enough to change the climate." That's not even close to scientific. The fact that 97% of scientists believe in some sort of MMGW is a real statistic. This is a powerful point…

It is profoundly Orwellian.

I was thinking the same thing. It's kind of like how North Korea calls itself "Democratic People's Republic of Korea"

One might say that it's a double plus good use of the word "objective"…

I feel like the word "Objective" in the name of an organization is almost as much of a red flag as "Freedom". Some people have their own magical definition of it.

COPE, for people who can't cope with reality.