See, you need to become a chiropractor, where you can sell the drugs - I mean medicinal herbs and supplements - direct to patients, and they will assume you are doing it from the goodness of your heart and that you in no way profit from these activities.

Big Pharma actually makes next to nothing on standard vaccines. So much so that the government often has to step in and encourage them to hop to and make more, because there's really no financial incentive for them to do so.

Seriously, Big Pharma, WHERE ARE MY SHILL BUCKS!?

I feel like Big Pharma must have my address wrong, bc I have yet to receive my check for BIG CASHall this cash I'm supposed entitled to

My question is, doesn't "Big Pharma" stand to make a LOT more money on meds and treatments for infections of these previously almost eradicated diseases?

you make a valid point, and we should be careful not to minimize the stress autism places on a family. However, I think many anti-vaxers have truly demonized autism and I have a huge problem with that. Jenny Macarthy says she saw her son's soul leave his body - what a horrible thing to say about your child. Even in…

I don't think it's saying that autism isn't that bad, they're just pointing out that it's not fatal and doesn't cause paralysis, blindness, deafness or any of the other much more painful and debilitating effects of the diseases vaccines protect us from.

Bwah! Love. I never did understand the "well don't you know BIG PHARMA makes ALL THE MONIES from vaccines!" My answer is always (aside from the fact that I doubt vaccines, which are largely given out for free, are the top money makers for pharmaceutical companies) the same: "SO WHAT?"

I'm always not quite sure how to feel about that statement. Certainly, autism has been cast as the boogeyman of the anti-vaccine movement. Most people with autism can function and do okay.

Right??? Like who the fuck is just fine with their child missing an entire semester of school for something entirely avoidable and against the child's own wishes? I feel so bad for that girl.

Yeah I'm surprised there hasn't been some sort of legal intervention there, or in a lot of these cases. We see parents charged with neglect and endangerment for refusing to seek medical treatment for their sick children, this whole situation is just one step away from that. In the case of the 16-year-old, we have…

Anti-vaxxers make me absolutely BONKERS. I just cannot handle these types of people! And sorry, but your tenacious desire to maintain your delusions is not so sacrosanct that you should be allowed to put others at risk.

No one will top this. It is my friends' favorite story to tell at parties because no one can ever beat it:

Oooh fun... I have a couple. My husband has good stories, too, because he works in music, but I won't steal any of his. Mine include:

met Nelson Mandela a month before he passed away

Better late than never, and most definitely should've posted this story sooner but here it goes. I do promise this will make you smile.

I spent an incredibly surreal Father's Day dinner seated with my parents at a table next to OJ Simpson, his older daughter, the two kids he had with Nicole Brown, his mother, and some girlfriend that was probably younger than his oldest daughter.