Frankly, I'm hoping it's based on the quack in England who started it as I'm well familiar with the rubbish he was spewing as is the medical community for pushing his ludicrous ideas since he has lost his license to practice medicine as a result of it ... wtf ... he wasn't practicing medicine anyway.
There's a commercial industry which has grown around anti-vaxx, anti-climatology, and anti-everything since there's always a bogus book to be written and validity was never required for sales to the pop audience. The type of rubbish they push is much like the sanguivorous vipers of YouTube who post disingenuous tribute videos about Gregg Allman ... but it's only for the click charges they will get for it. Self-absorbed li'l Nicola Crosley was slutty but she was nothing like someone who does that; at least she was honest ... and slutty.
I'm not aware of any significant scientific evidence rising to support anti-vaxx anywhere just as there isn't for opposition to climate change, Creationism, or any of a host of pop myths.
I'm specifically awaiting any peer-reviewed science which confirms support for anti-vaxx.
Any insult from me toward such people was anticipated almost seventy years ago by Cyril Kornbluth. America is that predictable.
Ref: "The Marching Morons" (1951)
The Rockhouse has a deep respect for science and approaches it with fascination rather than fear. I may not like the science I see and when I see any published papers which I consider in violation of logic, I'll make the observation.
That kind of discernment is painfully lacking in some large component of Americans and there are all kinds of lofty reasons and blames since they have observed the H-bomb with pointy, crooked fingers and say, "See what science does."
They don't typically say anything about the A-bomb which came from one of the worst people in the world, Edward Teller, who actively promoted the bomb and himself. Maybe you thought Carl Sagan owned the game of scientific narcissism but Teller was ahead of him by, yep, fifty years and Neil DeGrasse Tyson copied both of them.
I'm assuming the typical visitor to Ithaka is not a Luddite but I see substantial evidence of conservatism in the selections of which articles have merit. It was amusing to me to see such interest in the science on vampire bats ... but I later saw it was coming from Canada so America still didn't score.
Yevette's Theory is based on mobile phones since she believes their only real purpose is for people to avoid eye contact with others thus allowing them to live within insular worlds in which their only view of reality is the five-inch version on their tiny screens. We have seen in parallel with the rise of such withdrawal, the flourishing of anti-science and for some crazy reason they've adopted the finest of redneck logic.
The Bible said it; I believe it; that settles it.
That's one of the most primal attitudes humans possess and the converse is they don't believe science because the Bible didn't say it. Those ones may be present in the future but they won't have anything to do with building it; they don't know how.
There's a commercial industry which has grown around anti-vaxx, anti-climatology, and anti-everything since there's always a bogus book to be written and validity was never required for sales to the pop audience. The type of rubbish they push is much like the sanguivorous vipers of YouTube who post disingenuous tribute videos about Gregg Allman ... but it's only for the click charges they will get for it. Self-absorbed li'l Nicola Crosley was slutty but she was nothing like someone who does that; at least she was honest ... and slutty.
I'm not aware of any significant scientific evidence rising to support anti-vaxx anywhere just as there isn't for opposition to climate change, Creationism, or any of a host of pop myths.
I'm specifically awaiting any peer-reviewed science which confirms support for anti-vaxx.
Any insult from me toward such people was anticipated almost seventy years ago by Cyril Kornbluth. America is that predictable.
Ref: "The Marching Morons" (1951)
The Rockhouse has a deep respect for science and approaches it with fascination rather than fear. I may not like the science I see and when I see any published papers which I consider in violation of logic, I'll make the observation.
That kind of discernment is painfully lacking in some large component of Americans and there are all kinds of lofty reasons and blames since they have observed the H-bomb with pointy, crooked fingers and say, "See what science does."
They don't typically say anything about the A-bomb which came from one of the worst people in the world, Edward Teller, who actively promoted the bomb and himself. Maybe you thought Carl Sagan owned the game of scientific narcissism but Teller was ahead of him by, yep, fifty years and Neil DeGrasse Tyson copied both of them.
I'm assuming the typical visitor to Ithaka is not a Luddite but I see substantial evidence of conservatism in the selections of which articles have merit. It was amusing to me to see such interest in the science on vampire bats ... but I later saw it was coming from Canada so America still didn't score.
Yevette's Theory is based on mobile phones since she believes their only real purpose is for people to avoid eye contact with others thus allowing them to live within insular worlds in which their only view of reality is the five-inch version on their tiny screens. We have seen in parallel with the rise of such withdrawal, the flourishing of anti-science and for some crazy reason they've adopted the finest of redneck logic.
The Bible said it; I believe it; that settles it.
That's one of the most primal attitudes humans possess and the converse is they don't believe science because the Bible didn't say it. Those ones may be present in the future but they won't have anything to do with building it; they don't know how.
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