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Good Math, Bad Mathhttp://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2008/02/autism_vaccines_and_ghouls.php [Good Math, Bad Math] He comes on any thread on ScienceBlogs where vaccines are being discussed and attacks anyone, no matter what the tone of their post, for "attacking distraught parents." Well, I'm sorry, I realise that being the parent of a disabled kid is oftentimes no picnic (I was that disabled kid, once upon a time), but if you refuse to vaccinate because you are counting on herd immunity in the first place and secondly because your mother-in-law read an article and you don't know the first thing about risk analysis, you're an idiot, and you're putting your kid at further risk. "Concerned parentism" leading to moral panics of one sort or another is truly one of the scourges of modern life.

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