Another of my “I saw this on the interweb” posts, but I thought I’d point this one out. I know a few of my friends are anti-vaccine psychopa….err… propaghandis… err… believers? Sure, we’ll call it believers, that seems less inflammatory. At any rate, I have a few friends who read the anti-vaxxer websites and talk at great length about how vaccines are dangerous and should never be taken. I also have a lot of friends who are pro-science. I don’t say pro-vaccination because I don’t think anyone who doesn’t work for a vaccine manufacturer thinks that vaccines are always the right answer. Pro-science makes more sense to me as a label because it implies that the research facts and understand as best they can before they make a decision one way or the other based on the merits of the options.

Today I was perusing Science-Based Medicine (as I often do) and read this fantastic article by Mark Crislip. The article discusses two pieces he recently read that went into the anthropology of the anti-vaccination movement, and both the article and it’s subsequent references are very interesting reads. And so I figured I’d pass it along and hopefully you’ll enjoy them as much as I did.

Jim