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Fuck you, Science!

wfudkn said:
So I keep seeing ads on TV about how your kid can't go to school in DC without vaccinations and a dental exam. I seem to recall that vaccinations were required when I was a kid too. So are these anti-vaccine folks home schooling their kids or are their loopholes or what?
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Yea there are waivers to get through those loopholes.
 
DeaconSlim2.0 said:
Yea there are waivers to get through those loopholes.
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Public health should outweigh individual freedom.

I mean, it's stupid to even have vaccines. Who says they even work, science? One time, I got a flu shot and I got sick. WTF?
 
BarcaDeac said:
I knew a girl at Wake who grew up a Christian Scientist and had some religious waiver because she had never been to the dr. but most of the anti-vaccine nuts aren't doing it for religious reasons.
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ditto, but it was a guy. there are waivers.

eta: you know, in case you missed that in the last 5 posts.
 
bym051d said:
Public health should outweigh individual freedom.

I mean, it's stupid to even have vaccines. Who says they even work, science? One time, I got a flu shot and I got sick. WTF?
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oh hey! what's up, slippery slope!
 
BarcaDeac said:
I knew a girl at Wake who grew up a Christian Scientist and had some religious waiver because she had never been to the dr. but most of the anti-vaccine nuts aren't doing it for religious reasons.
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Haven't the courts ruled that christian scientists (and anyone else) who withhold medical treatment from their children based on religious grounds can still be convicted of neglect?
 
wfudkn said:
Haven't the courts ruled that christian scientists (and anyone else) who withhold medical treatment from their children based on religious grounds can still be convicted of neglect?
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I think that's in case of life threatening situations, not refusing a vaccination.
 
IamThunderbolt said:
I think that's in case of life threatening situations, not refusing a vaccination.
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I wonder, though, if it could be extrapolated out. What if they don't vaccinate against polio and the kid subsequently dies of polio, something that is easily preventable. I'm sure this has been brought up somewhere and dismissed, but it's not that far afield from not giving care in life threatening situations.
 
Have there been any cases of a parent suing another parent for not vaccinating their kid?
 
Junebug said:
Rescinding pluto's planet status
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