Yesterday I read an article in Double X about a lawsuit involving libel and major players in the vaccination debate. The article wasn’t actually about vaccinations; it was about a vaccination safety advocate suing a vaccination supporter, and the author of the article ended up saying she was a supporter of the debate, even though she was a supporter of vaccinations. I wrote a comment in response saying how important I thought the debate was too. If it wasn’t for the efforts of vaccinations safety advocates, vaccinations would not be as safe as they are today. Long term studies on their effects wouldn’t be done, and who knows what kind of things would be in our vaccinations. As I did in this blog entry on vaccinations, I suggested an alternative to the current medical paradigm, and didn’t mention whether or not I’d vaccinated my own child. The response, as I anticipated, was harsh, but I was a little surprised at how harsh it was. And it wasn’t that it was aimed (sometimes) at me, but that it was aimed at the anti-vaccination crowd in general. It struck me how polarized mommyhood, like all politics, has become. Read the rest of this entry »
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January 6, 2010 · Filed under Activities, General Parenting, Healthcare, Paradigms of Health, Television, Vaccinations · Tagged double x, mean comments, vaccination debate
Yesterday I read an article in Double X about a lawsuit involving libel and major players in the vaccination debate. The article wasn’t actually about vaccinations; it was about a vaccination safety advocate suing a vaccination supporter, and the author of the article ended up saying she was a supporter of the debate, even though she was a supporter of vaccinations. I wrote a comment in response saying how important I thought the debate was too. If it wasn’t for the efforts of vaccinations safety advocates, vaccinations would not be as safe as they are today. Long term studies on their effects wouldn’t be done, and who knows what kind of things would be in our vaccinations. As I did in this blog entry on vaccinations, I suggested an alternative to the current medical paradigm, and didn’t mention whether or not I’d vaccinated my own child. The response, as I anticipated, was harsh, but I was a little surprised at how harsh it was. And it wasn’t that it was aimed (sometimes) at me, but that it was aimed at the anti-vaccination crowd in general. It struck me how polarized mommyhood, like all politics, has become. Read the rest of this entry »
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