{"id":286793,"date":"2010-02-06T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=10863"},"modified":"2010-02-06T10:00:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T15:00:10","slug":"a-commenter-nails-the-antivax-mindset-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/286793","title":{"rendered":"A commenter nails the antivax mindset | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t usually do this, but TechyDad<\/a> left such a great comment<\/a> on my post about the antics of antivax founder Andrew Wakefield, I have to reproduce it here for all to see. <\/p>\n

Talking about the inherent contradictions and cherry-picking that go on in the alt-med purveyors’ heads, TechyDad says:<\/p>\n

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Gotta love the disconnect. If pharmaceutical companies make any money off of vaccines, it\u2019s “Big Pharma\u2019s injecting us with chemicals to make money!!!”<\/p>\n

Now if a homeopath or an “alternative therapy” company makes money off of their “treatment” it\u2019s \u201cThey\u2019re such wonderful people helping to treat these awful conditions!\u201d<\/p>\n

If a single batch of a single vaccine is recalled for a tiny problem they shout “See!!??? Big Pharma\u2019s trying to pump us full of unsafe toxins!!!!”<\/p>\n

If a company comes out with an outrageous sounding “alternative therapy” for some disease, they say “They say it works right here. It\u2019s alternative and alternative is always good.”<\/p>\n

If a homeopath says Treatment X doesn\u2019t work they say “It must not work because he\u2019s a homeopath and thus is fighting against the Medical Establishment.”<\/p>\n

If a physician says Treatment Y doesn\u2019t work they say “It must work and the Medical Establishment is suppressing it.”<\/p>\n

In other words, they\u2019re right, science is wrong and all evidence will be cherry picked and skewed until their view is supported.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Nailed it in one.<\/p>\n

Reproduced here with permission from TechyDad.<\/em><\/p>\n

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I don’t usually do this, but TechyDad left such a great comment on my post about the antics of antivax founder Andrew Wakefield, I have to reproduce it here for all to see. Talking about the inherent contradictions and cherry-picking that go on in the alt-med purveyors’ heads, TechyDad says: Gotta love the disconnect. If […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286793","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=286793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}