It is the sheer quantity of bullshit on the Internet that makes me skeptical whenever someone says, "I read on the Internet that..." Unless you have some way of filtering out the bullshit (not reading Breitbart would be a start), you may as well be asking a bunch of guys in a bar.

The non-vax is what I'd like explained. Are you a scientist? A medical professional?

There are huge debates among librarians about the ethics of obtaining certain items. I had a whole course in graduate school about ethical purchasing practices, so, please, don't imply that librarians are somehow propped up by the book-selling world just because you, in one tiny, anecdotal moment got a stupid book…

Yeah, that's good. But my favorite is the idea that "Big Pharma" would go out and pay off a few teachers at a school most of us would never have heard off, so they can get their kids to go out and make a documentary. Because I guess going to someone in Hollywood would just be too obvious?

"Activists claimed the naïve teens were being duped into making a propaganda film by adult advisors who had been paid off by pharmaceutical companies."

Or the whole, "Well where did Polio go? You think vaccines might've helped it go away?" argument.

Over protected from a bunch of fucking morons who think it's a good idea to not inoculate their kids? These kids didn't have any agenda other than presenting facts on a film. They should not be called names or yelled at by a bunch of uninformed idiots just for making a school film.

does this kind if crazy seem distinctly American to you? It does to me. Too much "independence" and "I did it my way." Ftr, I'm American.

"What about the children? Think about the children! WE MUST PROTECT THE CHILDREN!"

Most people do not know how to evaluate information and fall for all sorts of awful falsehoods that are all over the internet. This was one of the biggest fears librarians had in the mid 90s when the internet was taking off and it seemed like everyone was wondering when the libraries would all close.

I used to live in a place that was lousy with anti-vaxxers. Each of them was part of the left fringe and spent a lot of time talking about social justice (no, I am not saying that concerns with social justice are relegated to the left fringe, but these people were fringe and talked alot about social justice) - and…

The impressive quality of the high school production aside, if you're that threatened by a high school production, on some deep, subconcious level, you know what you're believing in is total bullshit.

Sums up the climate change brouhaha as well, only add in an unhealthy dose of economic and corporate special interest as well.

"It was all social controversy. There was no science controversy," said Allison DeGour, who will be a senior this fall.

Watch these students use this one WEIRD TRICK to promote vaccinations! Anti-Vaxxers HATE them!

I challenge you with(Paraphrasing): "23 years without a polio case in the US and I don't understand why we still give to children. It is beyond me"

What's really dumb is when you go on the internet and see that 99% of the evidence there points towards vaccines being a good thing. So they're kinda shooting themselves in the foot.

My compliments to these young people for doing their research and forming their own opinions. Additionally, my compliments to the parents and faculty who encouraged them, advised them, and when appropriate, protected them.

My favorite quote: "available on the Internet to challenge". Yes, if there is any source of information that can challenge real scientific research, it's the bastion of truth, the internet.