Arriving Late to the Party

~ Cheryl

I have managed to miss out on this story, largely because when Ben Goldacre first posted about it last week it seemed like a storm in a teacup. I should know by now how such little perturbations can quickly grow into a full-fledged Internet storm. I’m sorry, Michael Fish, I should learn my lessons better.

Anyway, having been prompted by Neil Gaiman, who was prompted by Stephen Fry, you all need to pay attention to yet another dose of quackery on the part of anti-vaccination scare-mongers. Especially if you have children, because it is their lives that are being put at risk by these irresponsible idiots. Ben’s post is here, and for a full update on the story so far, here’s Dave Aaronovitch at The Times.

3 thoughts on “Arriving Late to the Party”

  1. I have one friend whose parents were hippy enough to do this with their kids. To be fair, they were also members of the Children of God (remember them?). Anyway, they didn’t get their kids vaccinated and traipsed all over the world with them.

    Anyway, my friend has polio, as does another of her siblings. Her leg, at this point, is almost gone, she can barely function around the house and can’t work and is on SSDI.

    Freaking *polio.*

    So…that’s what you want, sure, don’t get your kids vaccinated.

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