{"id":774,"date":"2005-03-10T18:58:49","date_gmt":"2005-03-10T18:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=774"},"modified":"2005-03-10T18:58:49","modified_gmt":"2005-03-10T18:58:49","slug":"voodoo_medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=774","title":{"rendered":"Voodoo Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"

A recent study confirmed that there is no causal link between the MMR vaccine and autism<\/a>, despite the continued objections of some parents. The fact that thousands of people actually believe vaccines are harmful is, for me, a baffling phenomenon. I would contend that is the very success of immunization programs which have led otherwise thoughtful people into this kind of intellectually bankrupt thinking. With a few exceptions, there aren’t many deadly contagions for us to fear anymore. People aren’t being stuck in iron-lungs because of polio or dying from smallpox. These diseases have become relics of another era; it’s almost like they never existed. And now all the work and ingenuity that went into eliminating these diseases is casually dismissed by mostly affluent, mostly white suburbanites with college degrees. It’s too bad people living in sub-Saharan Africa don’t have the same luxury of having a middle-class hissy fit when deciding whether to vaccinate their children. Maybe it’s because my father is a microbiologist, but I find this kind of uninformed distrust of science both lazy and reeking of unacknowledged privilege.
\nNow I see that Garbage is coming to First Avenue in April<\/a>. Man, I have to go see them. I have the biggest crush on Shirley Manson. That Scottish brogue of hers is heartbreakingly sexy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A recent study confirmed that there is no causal link between the MMR vaccine and autism, despite the continued objections of some parents. The fact that thousands of people actually believe vaccines are harmful is, for me, a baffling phenomenon. I would contend that is the very success of immunization programs which have led otherwise […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-cu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}