To be fair, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that you limit your child's juice intake. Granted, that is a statement from a coalition of actual doctors and not somebody's "feelings."

I think the point is not "autism ain't that bad" it's more than autism doesn't kill your child. Measles, polio, and other preventable diseases can kill your child. Also, your child could spread the disease to other people and the disease could in turn kill them. Autism, not to downplay the difficulties and…

Exactly this. In essence, what you are saying when you make the decision not to vaccine based off of an unfounded fear that the vaccine will render your child autistic is that you would prefer your child dead than to have autism, a disease that although may present particular difficulties and challenges, will not…

Democracy is a sham.

We are approaching a nightmare that they will call BUSH V. CLINTON 2016. My best advice, is to do what I did years ago, and relinquish your television. It's going to be bad.

I wish I had my own personal cone of silence sometimes.

She's got all the grace and style of Jackie O. with the right amount of social consciousness of Eleanor Roosevelt. One of the best first ladies ever.

This is true for all vaccines. In order for a vaccine to be approved by big health-related watchdogs like the Centers for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration it undergoes years and years of testing and evaluation before it is recommended, or highly recommended for human use. "Big Pharma" does not…

Yeah, sorry, I'm not going to stand up and applaud a woman for not asking for help with the marathon that is the first three months of motherhood. I'm not going to shame her either, but for a lot of moms not asking for help or finding childcare even during the very very beginning is impossible. She's extremely…

She's not an outlier. We are a large, albeit usually silent minority, of Christians who are tolerant of others, accept multiple viewpoints, don't think that getting into Heaven is the end-all-be-all point of life, follow the whole "don't judge others" stuff, accept science, and don't advertise. Most of my good…

I also appreciate this Plait points out that most kids in America who are unvaccinated/under-vaccinated are not so because their parents have anti-vaccine views. It's because they are poor, they lack insurance, they cannot reliably get to doctors on a consistent schedule, etc. And those are far more solvable than the…

Exactly.

I was irked by that NPR interview, because there are so many different, distinct, separate parenting decisions that get lumped into being "crunchy" that have nothing to do with vaccines. And you can make some (or all) or those decisions, and still decide to vaccinate your kid. And there are people who probably…

He's awful smug for a man who publicly wears a dead animal on his head.

Honestly, I'd expect a supporter of Ayn Rand* to support a woman's right to choose, but she's kind of become like Jesus to these people in the sense of using her name as a battle cry without actually following the things she actually said.

It's called campaign season. Vaccines are for terrorists. Measles is freedom.

You're not the only one. The JC I was raised to put my faith behind would have never condoned this kind of violence and hatred.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

The general lack of compassion for your fellow man is really frustrating.

I wanted to be a punk rock singer, a senator, or an archaeologist. Unfortunately for my bank account, I followed through and became an anthropologist/archaeologist (I did not know at age 7 that archaeology is in fact a subfield of anthropology).