Comments on: Help vaccinate Las Vegas!

By: Damon

Damon — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:05:54 +0000

“Um, you do know how babies generally arive in this world? They have to come through this passage called a vagina and pop out of a place in a woman’s body that isn’t generally sterile. Then they have to start breathing this stuff called air, which is FULL of floating killer germs.
But it gets worse! Almost immediately, theyalso get people TOUCHING them with BARE UNWASHED HANDS, and BREATHING right into their faces. Some of these people even put their slobbery germ-ridden saliva onto these poor little babies’ faces with KISSES!
And these poor little newborn babies have NO immune defences whatsoever!!!! This horror should be stopped NOW!!!!!”

That’s right; cover up your ignorance of her statement by being sarcastic.

That said, the guy in this article looks too much like a crooked toolbag for me to support his efforts with a donation, so I’m going to have to pass.

Better luck next time. Maybe find a less creepy picture. :/

By: John Paradox

John Paradox — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:49:10 +0000

Hmmm… jumping over to Scientific American, there’s an article regarding creating autistic mice by making genetic changes.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=changing-a-chromosome-makes-mice-au-2009-06-26

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By: JediBear

JediBear — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:17:52 +0000

The US’s infant mortality rate is a touch high, but it’s generally due to a lack of intervention — poor mothers can’t afford adequate health care — than the opposite.

By: The Blind Watchmaker

The Blind Watchmaker — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:22:57 +0000

I will be there with my donation.

Don’t get bamboozled. Get vaccinated.

By: Ramel

Ramel — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:55:36 +0000

@Susan: In biological terms what you just wrote is bollocks, babies start life with functional imune systems and are exposed to infectious nasties from their first moments.

By: Carey

Carey — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:57:19 +0000

Cue Libertarians to justify user pays in 5… 4… 3…

Shane – I’m fairly libertarian, but I fully support a single-payer health care system.

Cue someone saying that I must therefore not be libertarian in 3… 2… (honestly, screw those people – there are many gray areas in politics, and if two parties don’t cover them all, I see no reason why three should either).

Any government that allows its citizens to bankrupt themselves in order to receive basic medical care is no government at all.