We just celebrated our 20th anniversary this past weekend. Here’s what I think help marriages/long-term relationships last:

I love you for this reference. Perfection.

I have property in one of those slums she worked in. It’s the best slum, the wealthiest slum.

PS also addicted to book smell. If there was a Book Smell perfume line I’d buy and wear all of it. Old book smell, new book smell, dusty book smell, train station paperback smell, children’s book smell, new academic journal right out of the mailbox smell...

Ah, I wondered! No worries!

Fair point.

No, oldscrumby made the original Facebook comparison - I did jump on it, though.

I did not say that kids, or anyone, should just go pick up a book. I referred to a time when “people did research at libraries and scientific expertise was respected more than social media followings.” I was speaking abstractly of a tradition of information-seeking that privileged more established research processes…

laughed out loud.

My point was not so much about the declining use of libraries as it was about between the difference between more traditional research practices and what one scholarly article on the subject of digital natives and vaccine skepticism called “contemporary information filtering.” Sure, libraries have some shitty books,…

How many millennials I know, whether I am a millennial, whether I am a OB-GYN nurse or doctor or any kind of scientist is secondary to the established research:

Where did I say that it was ‘all millennials’? I said “disproportionately more likely” - which is a well-researched and well-demonstrated point of fact. That there are Gen X-ers that don’t vax, and Millennials that do, doesn’t disprove that. More Millennial parents vaccinate than don’t, but there are still many more…

I’m only sneering at anyone who would equate the authority of “a Facebook meme” to “a library book.” There are absolutely shitty books in libraries. There are shitty books that get published. But by volume, there are far fewer shitty sources that have gone through a formal publishing process and have ended up in a…

Depending on which source you look to, Gen Y/Millennials were born after 1975, 1977, or 1980. In any case, call yourself whatever you like. I prefer to be referred to as part of Generation IDGAF.

And she held her anti-vax views when she was *younger*. So we’re talking about the views of someone in their early 30s, which should only seem old to a tween.

You suggested that a Facebook meme should have comparable authority to a published book found in a library. I suggested that was wrong, and stand by that suggestion.

Fair enough. Although in this case, it was less a broad brush than the wrong brush altogether - old people have pretty much zero to do with the rise of the anti-vax movement; it’s all on the youngest generation of parents. Wrong brush. Wrong paint, even.

Case in point: I had a real bad sinus situation going on. I asked if anyone had ever experienced it, and was told to not take the medicine my doctor had prescribed

Because I “found some book in the library that says so” is more legit than a facebook meme?

It’s very well-established that anti-vax positions are generational, skewing *younger.* That’s precisely why it’s an issue - it’s *this* generation of young parents that is refusing them.