{"id":163,"date":"2009-08-09T19:17:41","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T18:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/?p=163"},"modified":"2009-08-09T19:17:41","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T18:17:41","slug":"vaccinations-against-the-anti-vaccers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2009\/08\/09\/vaccinations-against-the-anti-vaccers\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaccinations against the Anti-Vaccers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Predictably enough, the anti-vaccination lobby has been turning its attention to H1N1 vaccinations of late in articles such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/columnists\/guest_contributors\/article6722428.ece\">this one<\/a> and the rather more hysterical <a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2009\/07\/03\/swine-flu-enters-x-files-territory\/\">&#8220;ZOMG! \u00a0Genocide!&#8221; blather I mentioned before<\/a>. \u00a0With that in mind, I&#8217;d thoroughly recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.layscience.net\/node\/625\">this article<\/a> on the <em>Lay Scientist<\/em> blog: a mature, non-hysterical examination of the strongest plausible worry that ought (in a reasonably well-put-together world) head off the critics at the pass. \u00a0There is a risk from vaccinations &#8211; that&#8217;s because we&#8217;re injecting people with biologically active stuff, duh &#8211; but there&#8217;s a risk in not being vaccinated, too.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Predictably enough, the anti-vaccination lobby has been turning its attention to H1N1 vaccinations of late in articles such as this one and the rather more hysterical &#8220;ZOMG! \u00a0Genocide!&#8221; blather I mentioned before. \u00a0With that in mind, I&#8217;d thoroughly recommend this article on the Lay Scientist blog: a mature, non-hysterical examination of the strongest plausible worry [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2009\/08\/09\/vaccinations-against-the-anti-vaccers\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}