It’s not always just genetics. There are other risk factors, like advanced paternal age, which anti-vaxers prefer not to acknowledge. Robert De Niro comes to mind—had an autistic son at fifty-five and spends his time advocating against vaccines, which have been proved not to increase autism risk, and never says…

Anti-education is so correct. Our new head of family planning Teresa Manning believes “contraceptives don’t work.” Guess myself and all my friends who have IUD’s or take birth control pills have just been lucky not to get pregnant for the past 15 years. It’s definitely not the 99.9% effective scientifically proven…

Minneapolis resident here. Was in Urgent Care for what, I’m praying to God, is the flu. I’m immuno compromised and praying I did not pick this shit up. Fuck this garbage human being, I don’t need to add “measles treatment” to my medical debt.

Jesus fucking christ. Dude is dangerous. He should be prosecuted.

having a dead kid is easier to deal with than an autistic one, which is what this anti-vax bullshit boils down to.

Why hasn’t he been deported for being a public safety risk?

I had an aunt that died of complications from Polio. She spent the majority of her life unable to walk or to care for herself. My grandparents were negligent and failed to vaccinate her.

Well, “celebrity” ranks higher than “qualified” in politics as well. Sigh.

I fucking hate that “celebrity” ranks higher than “scientist” in our society.

Also the idea of “anything but autistic” is so fucking shitty and gross. I really just hate people.

Fuck all these people who don’t have their children vaccinated. That they’d rather their children potentially die from a disease that’s been all but stamped out entirely, a disease that is 100% preventable given proper herd immunity, all because of the boogeyman that autism has become. They’d much rather have a kid…

“Wakefield, a British activist who now lives in Texas”

Every single time I read the name “Andrew Wakefield” I assume he’s a Sweet Valley High character and not a real person. Which is probably fitting seeing that his vaccination theory is complete fiction.

I guess they made the decision that having a dead kid is easier to deal with than an autistic one, which is what this anti-vax bullshit boils down to. Really shows that some people are incredibly shitty parents if they fall for these blatant lies and scams.

To say that Hennepin County is largely populated by Somali families is probably an inversion of what you wanted to say. Hennepin County is Minnesota’s largest county by population, with over a million people, of which only a few tens of thousand are 0f Somali descent (a few percent). However, it is true that Hennepin…

attendees applauded anti-vaccine activist Mark Blaxill after he said, “When you hear people from the state public health department saying there is no risk, that [vaccines] are safe, this is the sort of thing that should cause you to be skeptical.”

He should be charged with depraved indifference. Jack McCoy, where are you when we need you?

It bears repeating...

The blood of any child who has died in the last few decades of measles is on Andrew Wakefield’s hands. How he’s not in prison is beyond me. He should be serving multiple life sentences. Were criminal charges ever made against him?

Good bye life saving science.