Brilliant satire. You really nailed the ever-martyred voice of the fedora crew. 10/10.

Wanting horrible people to feel horrible = assholes making death threats. Sure. That makes sense.

Concerned troll is concerned, guys.

Sadly, true. Harrods used to be a shopping experience, somewhere you went to see and be seen. Now it's an over-gilded, tatty, faux Pharaoh tourist trap.

Sure, this fanfic sucks. But look at the bright side: The eventual slash fic that comes out of her creation is going to be delicious....

Quit.

Except for Mark, which as we've covered doesn't have any other form other than Russian/Dutch/English. Broader point was, there are people who think whatever people 'wrote' the NT were called Matthew Mark Luke and John, because those are safe Anglicized names for our consumption in the West. It's a marketing ploy, made…

Calm down Sparky, no one is going nuts on you. I was simply pointing out that the concept of Dogma being believed outright has been going on a long time. PS, 'Matthew' was not used in the Middle East. Mattityahu would have been someone's name - Matthew is just the English translation; the name 'Matthew' is originated…

The Bible was written about 300 AD, and there were very few Matthew, Marks, Lukes, and Johns running around 2000 years ago in what is now Israel, Jordan, and Palestine. But, people believe what they want to.

Everyone knows the Louis Pasteur was working for Big Microbiology!

True. Very few televangelists bilking little old grannies out of their Social Security checks by promising them peer reviewed data.

Always necessary when discussing these people: http://www.jennymccarthybodycount.com/Anti-Vaccine_B…

Not to mention the cost to treat the illness (say with a flu, decongestant, that Vicks stuff you put on your chest, pain killers) is MORE expensive than the bloody vaccine! Big Pharma would make more money just treating the symptoms than stopping the disease!

Sort of. Like everything (even dogma!), it actually comes back to money. Wakefield (the doc who cooked the study) privately patented a single dose measles vaccine so when his MMR 'proved' autism, he was set up to sell/license/etc his 'safe' vax. When anti-vaxxers scream 'follow the money', they forget that you can…

Yeah, I think there's a difference between people holding signs saying you're a puppet, and people you KNOW don't vaccinate and could be sick with nearly everything plopping down in close quarters with you for a screening.

There are major pockets of dumbasses in the UK as well, since Wakefield was a Brit doctor. We had a huge outbreak of measles in Wales just a year ago - 1455 cases in a country of only 3 million, 664 cases in one city alone, with a cost of stopping the outbreak at nearly £500,000, not counting sick…

As long as it's got Mother's...something or other!

Point of order - mental health issue != stupid. Vast, vast database of people who had mental health issues and were incredibly smart. Isolate the wilful ignorance gene, and we'll talk.

...or you could present your logical, peer reviewed data which led you to this conclusion.