voice of tolerance and reason. thank you.

It's actually reasonably possible to determine infection routes. So Mummy and Daddy Antivaxxer should note that.

So sorry about your hubby - hope he's rallying. I've raised this point in the thread above. I don't think anti-vaxxers realise that adults can be horribly affected too. The anti-vax movement just makes me so angry...

Yes, their children deserve equitable education. They also deserve not to get measles. This is too important to be put aside for fear of offending. We're too scared of offending these days. Children (and those children of the Christian scientists just as much as anyone else) are basically immunological blank slates.…

No... it doesn't work like that. Yes a virus cause it, but if everyone who could in NYC had their vaccine... you wouldn't get it. Now some people can't be vaccinated, or have terribly low immune systems (people with various immune syndromes/chemo patients..) and they drop like flies if they come into contact with a…

it's possible they had an outbreak in their area. I've seen quite a few statuses like this on my friends' facebook pages. They all live in South Wales, where there has been an outbreak of whooping cough beccccccaaaaauuusuee... people didn't vaccinate their kids, and now babies are DYING (couple of young adults too, as…

Thank you. Let's press this point. 2.6 million. dead. Measles kills and maims children. it's only because this is out of the living memory of the mainstream that people are so stupid as to go anti-vaxx. Vaccinate your children, or you're endangering their lives, their health, and that of the children and wider…

Let me give you a real world "adults in danger" scenario here.

I'd like to reply to this, as a scientist, and as one of those unfortunate outliers who had an SAE (i.e. a very serious reaction) to a vaccine.

if you'd like a proper, English (BBC accent, very serious) scientist to tell them (in very dulcet, BBC tones) why THEY ARE WRONG.. then please let me know.

Ah yes! Oh I so miss Edi.. (I hadn't even thought about a rope double entendre.. madam you are a bad girl!!) High street is so funny to cross - I lived right int he centre and it was like "normal road, normal road..HIGH STREET BANK LEFT TO AVOID TOURISTS..normal street.."

Education, education, education. This is so sad, but it can be changed, and it has to be changed by local, on the ground educated resources. I am semi-involved (not as much as I should be since I moved abroad, to my shame) in two great charities, one in Nepal and one in rural India, that try to get women/kids…

Hot DAMN lady, you just summarised my gown/search in a minute. I found one, but oooft. wasn't easy, Had to buy it from the US...many import tax. much weeping. ouch.

Get out there madam! I'm assuming you're a straight female who likes decnt men (my own preference) but I can attest to rock climbing, hiking and scuba diving as being places to meet fun people. I was lucky enough to have the whole British coast (chock-full of wrecks) available to me. I climbed (proper climbing, avec…

It's just awful.. I can't get my head around this kind of hate. Maybe it was random (which doesn't make it any better, battering two entirely innocent people to death) Does that make it worse than being directed? I just don't know. The end result is that two entirely innocent parents died. I'm horrified. Truly…

If you want to meet the gentlemen, don't do dance! (ofc if you want to do dance, do dance!) Do the courses that the people you want to meet do. You want to meet a nice arhcitect? Find out where they hang. Ditto any other profession. I made this error. I wanted to do a metal working course, and don't get me wrong, it…

UK native dwelling in Sweden...HOWLING with laughter at this. 34 bucks to support a family and 2 kids? MWAHAHAHhhhaha..yeah, OK, so you've never dealt with a country where beer is 12 bucks a pint, and a bag of groceries (one bag, one teeny tiny bag, like a few bits) is fifty bucks... Seriosuly, I know that the US has…

I'm polite. Never rude, but firm. I ask how they got my number, then I ask them to put me on either their DNC list of remove me from their list of names . I tell them (or did, in the UK) that I am on the TPS (telephone preference service.) I'm never rude, I'm always very pleasant. I've had two different guys yell at…

As a straight lady who thinks women are really incredibly erotically beautiful..... these pics just look like me and my girl buddies hanging out and taking the piss. There's no real eroticism there.. No real feeling. Have I missed something? I kind of think that if I was a lady who liked ladies I'd be a bit peeved…

Urgh. OK, so full disclosure..I'm a magpie. Scientist who LOVES metalworking. Love gold, love precious metals. Love to work with them.