{"id":244652,"date":"2010-01-28T13:40:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T18:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=10583"},"modified":"2010-01-28T13:40:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T18:40:02","slug":"why-one-parent-decided-to-vaccinate-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/244652","title":{"rendered":"Why one parent decided to vaccinate | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When confronted with arguments over an issue, how do you decide what to do? Especially when, to you, both sides seem to make good points? <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written about this before, and won&#8217;t belabor the logic process that goes into decision making over a contentious issue &#8212; even if the controversy is manufactured, as it is for vaccinations. <\/p>\n<p>Instead, I&#8217;ll give you an anecdote. When making a scientific argument anecdotes should be avoided, since they are the beginning of inquiry, not the endpoint. But I&#8217;m not trying to make a scientific argument here, I&#8217;m hoping to support the decision making process&#8230; and sometimes a good example is worth a dozen detailed instructions, so read <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.skeparent.com\/posts\/2010\/1\/13\/why-we-changed-our-minds-and-started-to-vaccinate.html\">this essay by a worried parent over his decision to vaccinate his child<\/a>. It&#8217;s a wonderful tale from someone who managed to find the narrow path of reality having once been well away from it. <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a new parent wondering whether to vaccinate your children, then you absolutely have to read that essay. You&#8217;re not alone out there. There are lots of people who have been through what you have, and some of them have figured out how to make the right decision.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/kqMTPtnWfCpu3WOFwVI23sgv27Q\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/kqMTPtnWfCpu3WOFwVI23sgv27Q\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/kqMTPtnWfCpu3WOFwVI23sgv27Q\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/kqMTPtnWfCpu3WOFwVI23sgv27Q\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/dLC6nDBjoFI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/3cxkERyKCzE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When confronted with arguments over an issue, how do you decide what to do? Especially when, to you, both sides seem to make good points? I&#8217;ve written about this before, and won&#8217;t belabor the logic process that goes into decision making over a contentious issue &#8212; even if the controversy is manufactured, as it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}