Part of the anti-vaccine movement’s strength is that the majority of diseases we vaccinate for are thankfully rare these days. So it’s easy for them to say “Oh! That thing? Yeah it’s harmless! Proper diet and cleanliness is what you need! Not those doctors and their knives! Bloody scaremongerers! Don’t you know they are rich! …
Category Archive: Vaccination
Jun 16 2013
An Idiot’s Guide To – Tetanus
This is a project I wanted to do for a while. Basically? Anti-Vax vs. Vaccination is a major problem in a large part of the developing world. Quackery movements in general are meshed together. And as I always say, the best ammunition against them is education. So I figure we should discuss some common diseases. …
May 01 2013
Viera Scheibner’s Quick Points – A Rebuttal
Viera Schiebner at her non-muggle job. I find this woman odious, a genuine harpy. Twisting the misery and suffering of countless children across the world to fit her world view of anti-vaccination and anti-medicine. Her work has recently begun to resurface courtesy of outbreaks of measles across Europe. It’s not sufficient that she misrepresents her …
May 01 2013
SSA May Day Madness Blogathon – 9 Questions that Stump every Pro-Vaccine Advocate and their Claims
Earlier this week I came across this article written in the inappropriately named Baby Centre website. It is a reposting of another article but the original site is down. In it is a series of questions posed by David Mihalovic; ND. These questions are allegedly meant to stump “medical professionals”. It was reposted by an …
Apr 28 2013
How to Scaremonger
The difference between anti-vax and vax is just which side we are scared off.
Apr 21 2013
Untrue Facts
If you haven’t read it already then I suggest you go down to the Guardian to read Dean Burret’s “untrue facts” about Andrew Wakefield. It’s a good way to learn something entirely new about the man.
Apr 15 2013
Not the Quacks! – Dear Newspapers, Stop Giving Wakefield a Platform
Seriously? The Independent? Have you ass clowns not learnt anything from giving this man a platform? People have goddamn DIED because of Wakefield. To give him a platform is just nothing short of irresponsible.
Apr 14 2013
Not the Quacks! – Eleven Angry Strawmen on Vaccines
Carolyn Flannery’s article on vaccines up on Age of Autism is the strawmanniest of strawman arguments with regards to vaccines. And look! She’s got it laid out in a list! Without faffing about, lets dig in to Eleven Vaccine Myths No One Will Say to Our Face.
Mar 18 2013
Vaccines – Educative Ignorance
Apparently I am “broken”. My medical education means one thing… That I am now officially in the claws of the medical system! Everyone tells me how incomplete my education is. From Chiropractors who tell me the spine is the heart of health (Including one who told me that spinal manipulation can control heart rates which …
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