Exactly- same with ADHD and a lot of other learning disabilities.

Nope. This is neither a left or right issue. You’ll find people on both ends of the political spectrum who believe this crap - in fact, quite a bit of the recent neo-luddism we’re seeing is a fringe offshoot of the environmental movement.

How ironic that they like to compare vaxxers to Hitler when their thinking (rather dead, than autistic) matches so well with his.

It is hate rhetoric when you get to the corner of the internet of parents who give their autistic children chlorine dioxide enemas.

A lot of it is how well vaccines have worked. People of an age to have kids these days have never seen the horrors of a non-vaccinated world. My parents, they remember schoolmates dying of polio, they remember fearing the epidemics every year. Me and people my age? We haven’t seen it. I know it intellectually because…

Hardcore anti-vaxers are about 5% of the population, from the polling data I see, but they are very loud and very well organized. They can whip up a Twitter frenzy in no time.

I contracted Guillain Barré last year after receiving my influenza vaccine and I do not regret getting immunized even though I still have severe nerve pain because GBS is extreamly rare and I am more likely to get it from influenza than the vaccine. And now I will rely on herd immunity. Oh, and the GBS Facebook group…

Hell, the original anti-vaxxers in this country WERE religious in nature. Eventually Christianity got on board (I guess they got tired of their tithing parishioners dropping dead from smallpox) and so the anti-vaxxers got divorced from religion and eventually turned their Luddite bullshit into a new religion. Very…

no one ever said they are always safe. Just MOSTLY safe. And bad vaccines are removed from the market when issue arise, same as any other thing. As a nurse, you should understand the risk analysis that takes place in medicine and public health. And you are confused about the definition of “hit piece”. Critical…

I generally think: http://www.wvc.org/images/session… as a good general reference for both cats and dogs and this (http://jfm.sagepub.com/content/15/9/7…) for cats. It’s good in that it actually sets out that revaccination should occur no more than every three years for core vaccines like FVRCP(except where required…

You know, these days I am probably what you’d consider a “Recreational Activist.” (I used to be a real one, but my health severely limits what I can do.) But I try to focus on things where there is solid evidence that it is actually HAPPENING.

A lot of bad science education, where students are not taught scientific thinking. Students certainly have science class. Stale, jargon science, which can be made interesting, but it more based on fact memorization, rather than learning how to think about something scientifically or logically. I actually took a class…

The former hippies made money, had kids and got REALLY LOUD. Also jesus. /s

Plus Jenny McCarthy, and Oprah (who gave platforms to her and Dr. Oz and has been a mouthpiece for so much pseudoscientific bullshit that I have zero respect for her at this point).

Wait, you’re telling me that the same people who think that vaccinations will give their kid autism despite a metric fuckton of scientific evidence to the contrary are also the types paranoid enough to think that Facebook pictures will infect their computers with viruses? What?!!! Paranoid, irrational people who are…

Andrew Wakefield, who should be sitting in solitary confinement in a SuperMax prison for the rest of his days.

It doesn’t bother me when they try to write comments about how ugly my kids are, because they are exceptionally beautiful and anyone can see that.

Just because you don’t like an article that cites things that are critical of a movement doesn’t mean it’s an attack or a hit piece. It’s called a criticism and it is very valid, in this case.

I am giving some side-eye to the parents for that but what is wrong in a person’s life that they would terrorize an 11 year-old?

That’s a hell of a good article. Why am I not surprised that a chiropractor is highly involved in the anti-vax movement?