An Open Letter to Bill Maher on Vaccinations

[pokerfan]

Vaccination is one of science's greatest discoveries. It is with considerable irony, then, that as a full-throated opponent of the nonsense that calls itself Intelligent Design, your anti-vaccination stance makes you something of an anti-evolutionist. Since you have been so vocal in your defense of the theory of evolution, I implore you to be consistent in your support of the theory across all domains and to please reconsider your position on vaccinations. It was not unreasonable to be a vaccination skeptic in the 1880s, which the co-discovered of natural selection--Alfred Russel Wallace--was, but we've learned a lot over the past century. Evolution explains why vaccinations work. Please stop denying evolution in this special case.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-shermer/an-open-letter-to-bill-ma_b_323834.html

[medeak]

1. husband's doc recommends no vaccine

with his disease process. It's a personal decision between pt and doctor

[pokerfan]

2. I'm not going to insert myself between your spouse and his doc

but Bill Maher http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=2180">doesn't even believe in the germ theory of disease.

Thoughts and prayers to you and yours.

[kestrel91316]

3. That's what is known as a medical contraindication. No one who

vigorously supports vaccinations has ever said or implied that medical contraindications for individuals be disregarded.

[medeak]

7. Thimerisal free H1N1 vaccine coming out November!!!!!

This is great news!!!

[alstephenson]

4. I wish he'd save his rants for something he knows about.

[pokerfan]

5. Yes!

I agree with him 90% of time but on this issue he's wandered into 911/birther territory. Yes, the terrain matters and we should all be vegan but how the fuck did we beat smallpox and polio? Hint, Bill, it wasn't grooming the terrain. My mom had polio and suffered for most of her life and she had the cleanest terrain I know. She could have used a vaccine in 1930. Go fuck yourself, Bill Maher.

[Orrex]

6. That would make for a much shorter weekly program

[xchrom]

8. kick