{"id":418977,"date":"2010-03-11T13:30:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T18:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=12691"},"modified":"2010-03-11T13:30:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T18:30:13","slug":"religious-antivax-sect-implicated-in-deaths-of-100-children-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/418977","title":{"rendered":"Religious antivax sect implicated in deaths of 100 children | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Word from <del>New Zealand<\/del> Zimbabwe is that a religious sect there &#8212; which believes in prayer over vaccinations &#8212; <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/africa\/article332775.ece\">may be responsible for the deaths of <em>over one hundred children<\/em> from measles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I believe people have the right to practice their religious beliefs&#8230; up until they start to hurt others. It has been proven over and again that <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.skepdic.com\/prayer.html\">prayer does nothing to heal disease<\/a> over <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/skeptico.blogs.com\/skeptico\/2005\/07\/prayer_still_us.html\">the placebo effect<\/a>, while vaccinations have saved hundreds of millions of people. That&#8217;s math I can do pretty easily.<\/p>\n<p>If this story is true, I certainly hope that the people involved are introduced to the inside of a jail cell for a long, long time. They can happily pray there all they want, and on the outside those children can get the vaccinations that will save their lives.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/IFrCf8KYawFuqszdkeuzq8aTrp4\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/IFrCf8KYawFuqszdkeuzq8aTrp4\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/IFrCf8KYawFuqszdkeuzq8aTrp4\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/IFrCf8KYawFuqszdkeuzq8aTrp4\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/Efdb0h54uQk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/cKXK5Cf9fgY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word from New Zealand Zimbabwe is that a religious sect there &#8212; which believes in prayer over vaccinations &#8212; may be responsible for the deaths of over one hundred children from measles. I believe people have the right to practice their religious beliefs&#8230; up until they start to hurt others. It has been proven over [&hellip;]<\/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-418977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418977","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=418977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}