23 May 2013

Not vaccinating your kids? Yeah, thank the celebs again.

David Frum in his The Daily Beast article Not Vaccinating Your Kids Is a Horrible Thing to Do tells what happens to the children of some morons:

In Swansea, Wales, there is a measles epidemic. Over 800 people have been diagnosed with the disease that is easily preventable by parents vaccinating their children.
Not exactly a laughing matter, since:
Measles can lead to lung infections such as pneumonia, and untreated, it can often be fatal.
But no matter what:
Some parents, however, refuse to vaccinate their children.
Yes, there is one chief culprit to blame:
Wales has had low Measles/Mumps/Rubella (MMR) vaccination rates for some time … since about 1998, in fact, when Andrew Wakefield published his bogus study in the Lancet falsely linking the MMR vaccine to autism.
Andrew Wakefield, the charlatan with a medical degree, has a lot to answer for. However, he is not alone, getting a strange and inexplicable support from some celebs. I will never get tired to remind you about this one:

Of course, it's perfectly possible that the folks in Wales don't know Bill Maher from a spoon-billed catfish, having some local moronic celebrity poisoning their minds. No matter. I guess not a single one of the people who refused to vaccinate their kids will take his/her car for repairs to a person with a degree in English and history from Cornell University. I bet they will want to see some auto mechanic credentials. However, when a self-important know-it-all nincompoop freely shares his inanities, including his considered opinion on vaccination, the mere fact of him being a celeb makes some people sit up and listen. Unbelievable.

Oh well, do whatever you want. You will anyhow...

10 comments:

SnoopyTheGoon said...

That's news, I thought these nuts were mainly in California and Portland. The Lancet, however, has always been political.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

You are still right. The Wakefield story is kind of unique.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

The Wakefield study (Promoted by Jenny McCarthy.) had a total of 5 children in its study. When this fact emerged the damage was done.


In the West, if a doctors says something contrary to what the Hollywood Bimbo (McCarthy) says, they are demonized.


The parents of these children have themselves to blame. Instead of listening to true medical advice, they listen to Hollywood idiots who spout the latest fad.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

My kids were born in England in 1995 and 1999, in the midst of the stupidity about the MMR vaccine. We didn't think twice about vaccinating them, but many educated people succumbed to the disgusting anti-science scare tactics.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

It's the invisible hand of evolution at work, obviously. Got to cull out the morons.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

That true.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Unfortunately. Effectively Wakefield and others like him are killing innocent people, if you think about it. And that creep Maher joins the chorus.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Indeed, but the problem is that it is the innocent children that are going to be culled first. Because of these morons.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Innocent, I suppose, except that the children here are not sui generis. They are blood descendants of the morons who follow celebrity medical advice. Evolution is cru-el.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Perhaps. Although the ultimate blame is with the parent who is dumb enough to follow the advice of the likes of Maher and Wakefield. Or, for that matter, to believe any scientific "discovery" you learn about from newspapers and TV shows.

Yes, a medical journal published one seriously dumb article in the UK, but even at the time there was clear consensus among experts that the risk from not vaccinating far outweighs any possible miniscule and made up link with autism.