As someone who has worked in nonprofits my entire adult life, and runs a cancer charity with my family, I AM PISSED that this scam is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt nonprofit.

God, and the other edge of that sword - if you do absolutely everything you can and things still don’t go the way you want, obviously you just weren’t strong or determined enough.

As a doctor, I will never forgive Jenny McCarthy, ex-Dr. Andrew Wakefield, and people like this for disseminating such misinformation to the world and causing such a backwardness in the public scientific knowledge base.  May they rot in hell.

Of course, they never, ever talk with any actual autistic people. To them, if we don’t come out normal and perfect, we are ruined.

No, it’s not. Olivia is the classic old lady name that became cool again, and not everyone named Jade is a stripper. <sensitive mom whose daughter’s middle name is Jade as an homage to her grandmother and has had to deflect those comments for 15 years>

That’s simply not rational you know. And so ridiculously able-bodied privileged I actually laughed (not at your mom, to be clear, at your skeptism). Oh to even have an option not to trust doctors. That doesn’t exist for millions of people.

I don’t think that’s a different thread at all. Refusing to vaccinate your children is child abuse, period, as well as being a public health menace. 

Meh. Make medical exemption the only one allowed. No religious exemption for public schools, and no “personal belief” exemption at all.

Even if they had insurance the rest of the insurance pool is paying for this bullshit.

Under the ACA preventative vaccines are free. The insurance companies pick up the tab for them and actively encourage them. Why? Quite obviously they’d rather pay 5 times $30 than close to $1m. Vaccines work. Vaccines are safe.

The parents likely see themselves as blameless, because -after all- the Lord saved their child* [from their neglect].

Zach Efron dating a “Bro” feels a little on the nose, no? 

“I just look at legal”

People need to tell all the stories!

counterpoint: blockchain. unhackable. distributed

My new theory is that there is no such person as Frida Garza. ‘Frida Garza’ is Jezebel’s version of Alan Smithee — it is used when a take is such garbage that the real writer wants to remain anonymous.

Proposed solution... Insurance will not cover any costs of hospitalization/treatment/etc for kids who catch the diseases of which you can be innocuous against and chose not to do so (obvious exemptions for valid medical reasons) for any parents whose assets are above 100k (including trusts+).

If indeed Amazon sees “the safety and wellness of our team continues to be our top priority,” why did this employee not have an employer-provided insurance physical and/or wellness care nurse checkup at any point in the past 6 or 8 months? Not to blame Amazon, but fuckit, let's blame Amazon (at least for their crappy…

That lady’s feet are way too close to the pie.  I don’t care how fancy your shoes are, keep your feet away from the pie.

I can’t speak for Jezebel as an entity, but I can assure you that I condemn anyone looking at Jeff Bezos’s penis at any time for any reason, be it his physical penis or a digital image.