If you want your brain to get achingly confused, as it tries to decide between grinding your teeth and tapping your toes, then you need to see this.
Melodically, it might not actually suck as much as I’d like to be able to say it does. But you’d honestly be hard-pressed to make the anti-vaxxers’ argument look more idiotic, and the people in the movement more deadened to any sense of irony, than by mocking up something like this video. The misleading bullshit just will not stop.
At one point it shows a man’s testicles falling off and jumping onto a nurse’s face because he got vaccinated, and they’re using this to make a serious point about the dangers of vaccinations.
It’s exponentially funnier and/or scarier because it’s real, and they totally mean it.
The really disingenuous part, as Orac points out, is the way a lot of these people still claim not to be anti-vaccine. They’re all for vaccines – they just want them to be “safe”.
Never mind that they can’t actually link vaccinations to anything unsafe; that they can’t offer any useful suggestions as to how to make them safer; that the link between vaccines and autism has been repeatedly proven to be vacuous; that autism rates continued to rise even after a supposedly “unsafe” chemical was removed from childhood vaccines; or that the alt-med crowd don’t even seem to be able to define the “toxins” they rail against. They still demand, unspecifically and insincerely, that someone “green our vaccines“.
Does anything about these loons’ latest output imply that they think vaccines are a great idea in principle, if the medical establishment would simply adjust their practices a little so that this potentially useful method of medication can be employed more effectively?
Or are they just screaming ZOMG DOCTORS ARE TRYING TO KILL YOUR BABY!!1!
All they have is empty, scary yelling. And people are dying.
The profound ignorance in that is overwhelming.
Things like this remind me just how good studying the history of medicine in GCSE History was. If they were taught even just the bit about vaccines, and the science behind it, and they wouldn’t be so arrogant and blind to not actually think about it, then ta-da! There might be less of a problem, but then that’s probably the answer to a lot of things so there goes that theory…