MMR Vaccine fraud

[zhekai]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5683671.ece

It seems that the link between MMR Vaccine and Autism is based on a fraudulent paper.

Comments

[arathian]

Does it almost serve them right to die due to their own stupidity? No one forced them to make stupid decisions.

Well I suppose a baby can't help that his or her mother is a moron though....

[zhekai]

well, it's certainly not surprising for a proportion of the public to make bad choices. It's a little more frustrating when they are mislead by (allegedly) fraudulent researchers!

[arathian]

Yeah, but isn't that also kind of stupid for believing everything they hear? What ever happened to common sense?

[zhekai]

No time for common sense, have to act now! XD

[mumbly_joe]

The problem is the herd immunity thing, though; it's not so much that they die from being stupid, but that they endanger random people around them, who have had the misfortune of having vaccines, but which didn't "take". (As someone who's been vaccinated repeatedly for both Mumps and Hep B because the first ones didn't take, I'm mildly grudgey about that point.)

[arathian]

Ah. Okay that makes sense. I thought they were mandatory?

Seriously couldn't that arrest people who won't take them?

Seriously if someone is stupid ENOUGH to endanger other people, well that's why drunk driving is a illegal isn't it? Is there that much difference between the two?