Illinois player out tonight with mumps(!)

This is amazing. Every time I see those commercials they crack me up because of how creepy it sounds. 

Sorry....I didn't mean to suggest anything.  Both my sons are doing their residencies at U of M and the topic of vaccinations has come up many times.  I could not imagine how a parent could put an otherwise healthy child at risk based on some of the nonsense that people hear.

My wife's sister is into A LOT of alternative medicine BS.  She basically had to be bullied by the whole family into getting my nephew all of his shots.  I told her point blank that my son wouldn't be coming near him, ever, unless he was vaccinated.

Nobody "reasoned" themselves into not vaccinating their kids. It's a completely insane and indefensible decision. It is terrifying that all research on presenting the benefits of vaccines to anti-vaxx parents just causes them to even more irrationally double down on being anti-vaxx. The fact that erradicated diseases are returning is an absolutely travesty.

And unlike many other issues for which I'm willing to accept differing POVs and opinions, this one actively hurts children for no goddamned reason. So no, I won't accept your condescending "life lesson" about decisions that lead to more needlessly sick kids.

A big reason for the increasing rate of autism isn't because it happens so much more often, but because it is diagnosed much more often. Before the 80s there were no criteria to definitively diagnose autism. When they developed those criteria the rate of diagnosis exploded because doctors had a uniform method of determining who had it. 

The correlation/causation thing drives me nuts. Even if the data for that study wasn't bogus, it wouldn't prove anything. I had a friend who was a stats major and he never wore shoes even in the winter (he wore sandles at least). When people asked him why he said that shoes must cause cancer because everyone he knew that had cancer wore shoes. He thought it was hilarious.

the head of the CDC got hired by big pharma, coincidence?  cnn and wsj are just spouting the big corporations' line.   i have researched the science on this in the hundreds of hours, having nearly lost a child to the issue and having spent weeks in various hospitals with this particular child.  my browser won't allow me to embed, but look up the reuters article on the issue of destroyed documents that were FOIA'd so that the underlying data could be reviewed.   the article came out in august of this year.   look at places like the vaccine reaction.

and to all you  mgoneggers, i challenge you to do the research, and i mean hundreds of hours worth, go to the hospitals, research the tests, the blood results, the data, ask the doctors, dig for answers, look up thimersol.  if you don't trust big [pick your entity of gov't or corporations or combination thereof] for important topics, why are you so willing to buy their lines now?