Check with your parents (or equivalent caretaker) to see if they have your vaccine card. I know where I grew up they gave your like a card or a book or whatever that had the dates of all your shots in it, so maybe you have one too.

But... but... animals get vaccines too! I'm at work and don't have my folder'o'gifs handy, so please imagine that head exploding guy from Scanners, please.

I don't think she was saying those are the problem. I think she was trying to illustrate the logic of parents who believe this. And that is the logic. The logic is wrong, but that is what happens- the onset of major ASD symptoms is around the time children receive a lot of vaccines, so parents associate those vaccines…

This is something that has always bothered me too. They always say things about how their child was "stolen" from them, like that their kid isn't their kid anymore now that they have ASD. Jenny McCarthy straight up said something to the effect of "well, we may just have to have more cases of measles to end autism."

Like I said, I don't know her background (wasn't involved in hiring process). She seems to have worked in some type of lab before, but I was horrified when she told me this. Of all the places to run into people who believe this stuff. I mean, from one of the MPHs who come from a social science background instead of a…

Yeah, my sisters were more typical cases later on- rashy and itchy and what not.

I am actually aware of that. However, getting the exposure from kids with chicken pox involves those gets getting the chicken pox, which is problematic for the reasons I stated.

Here's the deal:

VAERS is self-report and it is mostly un-moderated. I'm pretty sure there was a thing about some dude submitting a report about a vaccine turning is daughter into the Hulk to see if anyone caught it and removed it.

I don't have kids, but I'm allergic to the whooping cough vax.

As I said in my other comment, I tried to explain this to someone the other day and she was like "Yeah, but that's a pretty big if."

I don't know her full background, and I think she's just a tech working here for a couple of months. I'm not super surprised that the project she's working on attracted crazies though. It's not my project to talk about, but it's a topic area that folks like anti-vaxxers take and run with straight to OMG BIG PHARMA…

Not to mention that she originally thought he was an "indigo child," which to the best of my understanding means she essentially thought he was an X-man. I mean, believe whatever you want, but that's generally not a good sign that you take someone's medical advice.

Actually, this is totally becoming other people's problems too. I don't think it went anywhere but someone had brought up an initiative at WHO to remove thimersol from vaccines that are distributed in developing nations, because we took it out of our vaccines during the MMR scare.

I knooooooooooow.

We have a new tech in the lab, and she evidently doesn't believe in vaccination (and hasn't vaccinated her kids). I seriously cannot even with her. We work in PUBLIC HEALTH.

Now, this I'm not sure I can agree with. They can't just plop down a modern feminist into the setting and expect it to work. You still have to work with the time period you wrote yourself into, even if there is already some suspension of disbelief.

Correct. But Disney calls her one of their princess because because.

Ah, okay. I'm familiar with a few languages that do that, so I can understand how that stereotype got started. I think it's the sort of thing where the movie skirts the line a places. Like, the filmmakers intent may have been mimic those aphorism, but since that speaking in proverbs stereotype exists, its difficult…

Ooof that last bit.