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I'm not sure it's ever a good idea to brand someone a denier, when you need to win that someone over to your side. There are many others who say, 'Why take the chance?' A reasonable, if wrong, response to fear.Īnd for this you get called a denier. It is difficult exonerating the putative culprit (vaccination) when it is your child suffering autism. Many who embrace the science of global warming reject the science of vaccinations when it comes to autism.

When it lands near home, we believe what we want to believe. The thing is everyone has their causes, and when they feel strongly enough about them many reject sound, opposing arguments, even when those arguments are backed by scientific findings.ĭenying favors no political persuasion. It's so in fashion to call someone a denier when they reject science in favor of their emotional or political causes. I agree with her, but what gets me is the use of the word 'denialists.' I was wondering when the word was going to be used.

If you have an answer, I’ll be here, whooping, while I wait. Carry your baby around in a sling, feed her organic banana mash while you drink your ethical coffee, fine, but what gives you denialists the right to put my health at risk-to cause me to catch a debilitating, humiliating, and frightening cough that, two months after I finished my last course of antibiotics (how’s that for supporting big pharma?), still makes me convulse several times a day like some kind of tragic nineteenth-century heroine? I understand your wanting to raise your own children as you see fit, science be damned, but you're selfishly jeopardizing more than your own children. You took an ethical stand against big pharma and the autism your baby was not going to get anyway, and, by doing so, killed some babies and gave me, an otherwise healthy 31-year-old woman, the whooping cough in the year 2013. One of the victims is 31-year-old Julia Ioffe, who has been coughing for 72 days: As fewer people have their children vaccinated, pertussis - whooping cough - is coming back.

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