tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-632126352829336664.post1250533587830716231..comments2013-04-19T10:04:05.819-07:00Comments on Bruce R. Cordell: Anti-Vaxers and Grief PredatorsBruce Cordellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909721180218892687noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-632126352829336664.post-8373139152166514212011-06-11T10:03:06.813-07:002011-06-11T10:03:06.813-07:00Charles, you make a very good point. This is some ...Charles, you make a very good point. This is some fertile ground for disinformation. I bet you're right, Jenny McCarthy believes she's doing the right thing against a conspiracy of western medicine.<br /><br />But I'm not so sure about Wakefield. Not to mention all the gluten-free vendors and other woo-woo new age mumbo dealers at these conventions.<br /><br />To extend this even further (beyond vaxers, and say, to those who promulgate that there is "no such thing as anthropomorphic climate change" ..., few people ever think of themselves as the bad guy. Cognitive dissonance sees to that.Bruce Cordellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15909721180218892687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-632126352829336664.post-10105398268441948312011-06-11T06:44:18.601-07:002011-06-11T06:44:18.601-07:00There is another side to the story; an extenuating...There is another side to the story; an extenuating circumstance, if you will. In my extended family, we have a baby (now about 7 months old) with a very rare, very hard to diagnose blood disorder. She's been through a zillion tests and a zillion transfusions, and it still hasn't been nailed down and the child is, frankly, at great risk of death. As you can imagine, the emotional strain and turmoil has been intense for the parents and everyone close to them.<br /><br />Infants get a lot of shots, so it's not too strange that the first symptoms surfaced shortly after a vaccination. And now, in the absence of any other clear cause, you will never, ever, ever, not in a million years, convince some members of my family that it wasn't the vaccine's fault.<br /><br />Grief makes people irrational. That makes them good targets for predators, but it can lead to the propagation of irrational beliefs even without them.Charles Ryanhttp://www.charlesmryan.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-632126352829336664.post-67752762711365844712011-06-10T15:54:24.284-07:002011-06-10T15:54:24.284-07:00We'll just ignore the fact the primary researc...We'll just ignore the fact the primary researchers who said that in the first place were fully discredited. They then admitted to making it up and publishing it anyhow.Kenny Mahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15365851733545295029noreply@blogger.com