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The Stupid! It Hurts! (Anti-Vaxxers Edition)

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Lord knows I've wasted too much time on the fuckwads inhabiting the anti-vaccination ecosystem, but every now and then something opens a +3 Bag Of Egregious Stupidity , and sets me off. In this case, its the Wasington Post (motto: " Yeah, we used to be a newspaper "), with a profile of some numbnut named Wolfson who appears to be a doctor of some kind, though I have no idea how his anti-vaccination beliefs jibe with the Hippocratic Oath Oh, don't get me wrong, its not that they justify his goofy ideology - its just that they're pretty much playing into his shtick by reporting this as "news". ITS NOT NEWS YOU IDIOT!  You don't do feature articles on the nutjob standing at the street-corner!  You know why  Because, ITS NOT NEWS! If you want to write about ballistic ignorance, write about it properly , with none of this " opinions on the shape of the earth differ " crap! To see how it should be done, go check out Albert ...

Anti-Vaccination Idiocy - Texas Edition

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Remember last year when Indian had the measles thingy ? And before that, when in 2005 they had another  measles epidemic ?  All because a bunch-a idiots of the Jenny McCarthy vein decided that science was for shit?  Well, guess what - it happened again, in Texas this time.  From Forbes A measles outbreak in Texas traces to a congregation of a megachurch whose leader,  Kenneth Copeland , reportedly has warned followers away from vaccines, advocating for faith healing and pushing the debunked notion that vaccines cause autism. One of Copeland’s churches, Eagle Mountain International Church in North Texas, is the epicenter of the outbreak, which now has hit at least 20 people Just as Wales is  paying the price  of the autism-measles vaccine panic begun 15 years ago, so is this Texas community. In the wake of the outbreak, the church’s pastor and Kenneth Copeland’s daughter, Terri Copeland Pearsons, was  urging congregants  take advantage ...