I’m in favor of vaccinations, but we should be on our guard not to champion this argument:
"vaccines and autism… any link has been thoroughly discredited by the scientific community”
when we rightly decry the vacuousness of this argument:
"there is now an overwhelming scientific consensus that global warming is indeed happening and humans are contributing to it.”
As a survivor of the “every kid gets measles and it’s no BFD” period, I find the argument that measles is a hell of a lot less dangerous than autism to be sufficiently rational. If we were having this argument over polio or smallpox it would require serious soul-searching, but having it over measles seems to be just more snowflakery.
It gets even better.
ReplyDeleteSpeaker says vaccines and autism may be linked, a view denied by public health officials
I’m in favor of vaccinations, but we should be on our guard not to champion this argument:
ReplyDelete"vaccines and autism… any link has been thoroughly discredited by the scientific community”
when we rightly decry the vacuousness of this argument:
"there is now an overwhelming scientific consensus that global warming is indeed happening and humans are contributing to it.”
As a survivor of the “every kid gets measles and it’s no BFD” period, I find the argument that measles is a hell of a lot less dangerous than autism to be sufficiently rational. If we were having this argument over polio or smallpox it would require serious soul-searching, but having it over measles seems to be just more snowflakery.