51. This deadly religious resistance to vaccinations

Comment #96922 by Slyer on December 11, 2007 at 5:13 am

In 1978, there was evidently an escape of smallpox from containment in a research laboratory in Birmingham, England. A medical photographer, Janet Parker, died from the disease itself, after which the scientist responsible for the unit, Professor Henry Bedson, committed suicide. In light of this accident, all known stocks of smallpox were destroyed, except the stocks at the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Russian State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology VECTOR in Koltsovo, where a regiment of troops guards it. Under such tight control, smallpox would, it was thought, never be let out again. Even though the destruction of virus stocks was ordered in 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1996[citation needed], they have not yet been destroyed, since a number of researchers still wish to retain the stocks for scientific purposes.

52. This deadly religious resistance to vaccinations

Comment #96902 by Slyer on December 11, 2007 at 4:25 am

Both are necessary notsobad, are you saying it's still okay to have a country plagued by disease as long as the birth rate is kept down?
Unless your intention is for them to all die out..
I don't really understand your definition of "help".

53. This deadly religious resistance to vaccinations

Comment #96898 by Slyer on December 11, 2007 at 4:13 am

This sort of nonsense makes me so angry, if only they could realise the damage their ignorance is causing! If there is one thing in this world deserving of your faith, it's science.
I can almost understand where parents are coming from when a new-ish vaccine is being used, they are concerned for the safety of their children and I guess I can accept that. But the parents not allowing their children well-tested vaccines because of superstition? That I will not stand for, vaccines and contraception are very necessary to ensure that these diseases die down, if not die out entirely.

Pro-life my ass.

54. Romney's Mormonism is fair game

Comment #89538 by Slyer on November 21, 2007 at 3:16 am

Mormon, Christian, Muslim, it doesn't matter, you shouldn't mix religion and politics if you can help it. As much as I'd like to say that I wouldn't be biased towards voting for a non-theist, I'm as biased as everyone else.
Oh how great it would be without religion to divide us so.