(December 2, 2013 at 6:15 am)Jacob(smooth) Wrote:(December 1, 2013 at 9:52 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: One word. Polio. The only reason it was on the way out is because Salk kicked it out.
Haven't you heard? It's making a comeback.
Yeah and, unfortunately, it's making its comeback because of these anti vaxers.
We've managed to successfully eliminate smallpox to the point that the bacteria that causes it is extinct. This is a solid win for humanity.
Other diseases like measles, polio and whooping cough are probably on their way out. The process is just going to take longer (and cost more, and kill more people) because of anti-vaccine beliefs.
It would be easy for me to look at their group and just dismiss them as a bunch of fringe kooks, but I used to think that creationists were a bunch of fringe kooks and now they're rewriting science books and influencing politicians. It worries me that anti vaccine garbage could take hold in mainstream thought that way and spread like a virus (which is kinda ironic, in a dark sort of way).
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama