Reading Time: 2 minutes Religiosity is dropping around the United States, that much is obvious from the stats. However, there has been a recent spike in those claiming to be religious, in at kindergarten age, in Vermont. This seems to be as a result of a change in exemption rules to vaccination. It is certainly the case that many countries or […]
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Texas anti-vax pol thinks antibiotics kill viruses and Soviets still exist
Reading Time: 3 minutes What do we do with a lawmaker who doesn’t know a bacteria from a virus?
Posted inHealth, Pseudoscience
WHO Adds Anti-Vaxxers to List of this Year’s Challenges
Reading Time: < 1 minute The World Health Organisation (WHO) produces a list of things it will focus on and for this year they have added vaccine hesitancy – the polite way of naming anti-vaxxers as a healthcare worry: Vaccine hesitancy Vaccine hesitancy – the reluctance or refusal to vaccinate despite the availability of vaccines – threatens to reverse progress made […]
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Anti-Vaxxer Wakefield Has Great Influence in Trump’s America
Reading Time: 5 minutes There’s nothing about Trump’s America that surprises me anymore. In fact, whenever I think about what would be a good and proper thing for a responsible world leader and massively powerful and influential country to do, I am met with the exact opposite. Trump and the people around him appear to be doing the extreme moral […]
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Herd Immunity for the Christian Bubble
Reading Time: 10 minutes The denizens of broken systems tend to take very poorly to critics outside the group–and even more poorly to dissenters within it. Often they reserve their most vicious retaliation for those dissenters. But of late, it’s gotten safer for Christians to dissent. In a very real sense, their tribe’s herd immunity may be fading away. I’ll show you why today–and why there’s never been an easier time to walk away from that most broken of systems.
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Donald Trump’s Pick for Health And Human Services Secretary Belongs to a Sham Medical Organization
Reading Time: 4 minutes On Tuesday, Donald Trump announced that he’d picked Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) as the next Secretary of Health and Human Services, and boy is this one ever a beaut!
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The Handbook: Building a Worldview Around Consent.
Reading Time: 14 minutes One of the biggest shifts I had to process in my thinking was my understanding of consent. Not to make it sound all dramatic or anything, but it was about the biggest 180 I could possibly have made, and chances are some of y’all are facing that same challenge now.
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Texas mega-church learns the hard way that God alone is a useless defence against disease
Reading Time: 2 minutes This report in The Freethinker details the importance of a robust vaccination programme for the health and wellbeing of citizens across the globe. This is science (bitches – ooh, Dawkins, so rude) and this is how it helps progress.
Or, this is backward church anti-vax thinking, and this is how it hinders progress.
It is no surprise that something like this has happened. In fact, I believe we had a measles outbreak earlier this year in the UK (esp. Wales) due to a lack of vaccination in certain demographics.
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Word of the Day: Shibboleth
Reading Time: 2 minutes This interesting Hebrew word means “torrent of water.” But that’s not what it really means.