Vaccinations

This sort of relates to my post about listening to celebs when it comes to pretty much anything. They are generally used by partisans of one side or another of a debate to lend credibility to their side. Wow, Jim Carrey thinks they are right! They MUST be!

Right now we are being put in danger by misinformed celebrities and other public figures who are influencing families into not getting their children vaccinated against common childhood diseases.

Are you kidding me? What do comedians and playboy playmates know about ANYTHING, let alone how you should protect yourself from disease?

Vaccines have been blamed for everything from autism to diabetes. Well, the ingredient believed to cause autism has been removed from most childhood vaccines, yet the rates of autism continue to climb, and diabetes has been attributed to the growing obesity of the population, NOT being vaccinated against the measles.

They think that since the diseases in question are now quite rare that it is ok to stop vaccinating, but this silly fallacy in logic would result in a new spread of disease. This creates pockets of population that are completely susceptible to infection where the pathogens can spread unchecked.

This is a complete joke and the insane propagation of complete misinformation by people who are in no position to teach the public about health matters must stop. I'm all for debate on uncertain issues and for the public to hear all sides of said debate, but when celebs use their popularity to influence others into decisions, I am disgusted. This is especially true when they are merely flouting their opinions based on poor logic around and want us to treat it as gospel.

For more information, this article is well written on the subject.