I'm thinking about posting a link on facebook about why vaccines are safe
with the accompanying message

Worried about vaccinating your children? Your concern may be a sign that you are a shit parent and should have your children taken away before you enrol them in a sex cult, you retarded fucking bastards.

Too harsh, or about right?
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 22 Jul 2011, 0:03, 14 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

Too late I posted
If anyone is offended, you're to blame. I've watched politics, I'm pretty sure that's how it works.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 22 Jul 2011, 0:15, Reply)

You are 100% right.
A friend of mine posted some shit about using homeopathic vaccines as they have no link to autism. I told him that they also have no link to disease prevention and that putting faith in such arsehandery was doing more harm than good.

Later that day, a facebook friend said that of evolution that 'it doesn't explain everything' and that there are other credible explanations.

She stopped short of saying "it's just a theory", but I tore her a new one for her gross stupidity.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 22 Jul 2011, 0:23, Reply)

God, the last time I posted about homeopathy
half a dozen people had a huge fight in the comments. It was very entertaining.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 22 Jul 2011, 9:14, Reply)

If the parents are that stupid, the children will be worse and therefore deserve everything they get.
Also, facebook is an excellent case against democracy and free speech. There has to be some way to keep the general public safe from their own idiocy and price them out of internet access, voting or anything more than the most basic education - some combination of national security, climate change, and the recession should be enough to make a good excuse.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 22 Jul 2011, 2:18, Reply)

Spot on

(Bazongaloid, Fri 22 Jul 2011, 8:28, Reply)

Better late than never, but
right on the nail.

The MMR/autism paper was a ropey study to begin with, has had its methods questioned and its results debunked, and the author who conducted the research in the first place has been hauled over the coals by the British Medical Council. Why do people still believe this horse-shit?

Edit: actually, just to add one more ridiculous example - on the way down to Brussels last christmas, Poppet and I got stuck talking to some chap who had a conspiracy theory about fluoride in the water, and didn't trust doctors to give him any sort of medication or vaccination.
"I don't put anything into my body," he told us proudly, "except cod liver oil."
Bravo, you've not only put up a weak fantasy argument to begin with, but you've just saved us the job of rebutting it. You retard.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 22 Jul 2011, 8:53, Reply)

Mmm
"Cod liver oil was traditionally manufactured by filling a wooden barrel with fresh cod livers and seawater and allowing the mixture to ferment for up to a year before removing the oil."
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 22 Jul 2011, 9:13, Reply)

Ah, but you see, they used seawater
None of this dirty tapwater with all that fluoride in it!
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 22 Jul 2011, 10:38, Reply)

another retroactive vote for "do it".
I'll go and 'like' it in a minute
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 22 Jul 2011, 9:38, Reply)

it's all about whether people can have faith in the system that
tells them that it's the right thing to do. If you know no science you are basically letting some dude who says they (and a lot of other dudes) know what they are doing then you might has well have someone wave a magic wand

Answer is, more education, less battering people with the 'of course we're right' stick.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 22 Jul 2011, 10:12, Reply)

Ben Goldacre made a very good point
that the real villain in this is not the Andrew Wakefield, nor the other scientists whose findings might conflict and confuse, but the newspapers, who happily leapt upon the story and went on a massive, ham-fisted scaremongering campaign with some rather troubling consequences. (Reckon we can beat Murdoch Inc with this stick as well?)
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 22 Jul 2011, 10:36, Reply)

Unfortunately anyone can have a child
even idiots.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Fri 22 Jul 2011, 10:58, Reply)

Maybe we should look upon this as a perverse form of natural selection
If the idiots don't vaccinate their children against rubella, they might all die out.

Besides, even if, despite the lack of reliable evidence, there is a link between the triple vaccine and autism, autists can still survive perfectly well - just look at this place.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 22 Jul 2011, 11:24, Reply)

Yep, and you'd have thought that most parents would prefer a live autistic child
to a dead 'perfect' one.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Fri 22 Jul 2011, 12:15, Reply)