LIES.

oh hai Jezebel. I just want you to know that i love Lisa so much and i did not hiiiit her i did nauuuuught...so how's your sex life?

All I picture is:

Gandhi's wife died of a treatable illness after Gandhi refused penicillin on her behalf. later, when he was sick with the same illness, he decided that penicillin was, after all, acceptable and his life was saved by it.

Nope, can't make it up. Later in the day, my gave me a salad with dressing made from frankincense oil. I nearly fell over when she told me (after I had eaten it), #1- you're not supposed to eat essential oils, I was seriously a little worried I was going to miscarry, and #2, that shit is like $70/bottle. It's like…

you are absolutely right to be irritated! You have a serious medical condition and you don't need that undermining bullshit to deal with. I'm speaking from experience. Get as angry as you need to, say what you need to, and then focus on yourself and do not let them upset you or bully you or guilt you. And I hope…

So I grew up under anti vaxx craziness (luckily my biological mother had me vaccinated before my stepmom came on the scene) and they subscribe to every alternative homeopathic nonsense on the planet.

I keep thinking about how many kids pick Disneyland for their Make A Wish wish. Some of them either can't be vaccinated or have had their vaccinations wiped out by their treatment. Then the anti-vaxers take their kids to Disneyland and let them loose. If you don't vaccinate you kids, keep them in your little bubble,…

I love it when people bring up toxins, because it is an immediate red flag and then I know that I don't have to take this person seriously anymore. Toxins are the miasma of the 21st century.

And then Big Pharma puts that money in a big vault and swims in it, like Scrooge McDuck. It's not like they use their revenue to fund research or anything.

I finally got off the boat and read blogs, forums, and Facebook communities run by Oregon anti-vaxxers. Needless to say I was amazed. It's like observing a colony becoming perverted and slowly inbred, all alone on a pacific island (oh wait, that's Pitcairn Island). They started off as physically fit, socially and…

Who cares if it is a real quote? Gandhi was not a doctor or medical researcher. Just because you are knowledgeable in one field does not make you knowledgeable in another. Linus Pauling won two Nobel Prizes, one in Chemistry and one in Peace, yet propounded the now-discredited theory of Vitamin C as a cure for…

OH it's real. And my favorite part is that paying for the cost of developing, researching, producing and distributing a vaccine is "lining the pockets of big pharma", but paying $100s of dollars a month to an essential oil pyramid scheme is somehow reasonable.

THANK YOU. I have a baby who's not yet old enough, and I am paranoid. It may be a bit unreasonable but if she were exposed, she has a 90% chance or better of getting it.

You've got to factor in the folks who can't get immunized but want to.

I wish that was true, but plenty of reasonable people end up with compromised immune systems because of chemo or auto-immune disorders, or are just babies not old enough to be fully covered, and end up getting sick and even dying despite believing in science and logic and modern medicine. :(((((((((

Real conversation I had recently with my aunt and uncle (antivaxxers and snake oil salesmen):