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Samantha Bee took on the pernicious effects of right-wing science denialism Monday night on "The Daily Show," specifically vaccine denialism. "Vaccines are not a belief system," Dr. Paul Offit, infectious disease specialist tells Bee. "They are evidence-based science."
So where is the outbreak of vaccine ignorance occurring? Much to Samantha Bee's horror, the anti-vaxxer movement is not primarily a right-wing phenomenon. The "outbreak of f*cking misinformation" is occurring in "upper middle class, caucasion, college-educated," and yes, liberal enclaves.
"It's happening in my community?" says Bee. "People who juice?"
Looking for "Patient Zero" of the outbreak of ignorance, Bee finds Sarah Pope, author of the Healthy Home Economist blog, who says things like, "your consensus is not my consensus."
"Yeah, what's a consensus anyway?" Bee says. "It's just an overwhelming majority of scientists, worldwide, like 99.9 percent or something. Pffft."
At one point Pope has Bee frothing at the mouth. Finally, she frantically tried to quarantine Starbucks locations where she suspects the infectious disease of ignorance may be spreading, possibly even through soy lattes.
You just have to watch it for yourself:
http://www.alternet.org/video/hilarious-video-daily-shows-samantha-bee-tackles-epidemic-anti-vaxxer-idiocy
cpwm17
(3,829 posts)zappaman
(20,606 posts)again!
hlthe2b
(102,291 posts)and sad....
zappaman
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Ohio Joe
(21,756 posts)Bwahahahahahahahaha... That is freakin awesome stuff
tanyev
(42,564 posts)The other segment blasted the newstainment industry.
Gothmog
(145,303 posts)She did a great job on this issue
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)Is for some major outbreak of some contagious disease to cause the crippling, blindness or deaths of some of THEIR children.
OTOH, if someone else catches a disease from one of their unvaccinated kids, and sues the crap out of them, that might change their behavior also.