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marfknox
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Posted - 11/05/2011 :  11:37:47  Show Profile  Visit marfknox's Homepage  Send marfknox an AOL message Send marfknox a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Just read this from Bad Astronomer:

First, the antivax organization that is (Orwellianly) called the National Vaccine Information Center has paid for ads to run on in-flight Delta airline TVs. These ads give what can charitably be called misleading information about vaccines.

...

The second bit of news is so appalling it’s difficult to overstate. On Facebook, parents belonging to an antivax group were encouraging others to send postal mail to each containing items like lollipops infected with saliva containing chicken pox.


I am speechless.
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Kil
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Posted - 11/05/2011 :  11:48:56   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Kil's Homepage  Send Kil an AOL message  Send Kil a Yahoo! Message Send Kil a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by marfknox

Just read this from Bad Astronomer:

First, the antivax organization that is (Orwellianly) called the National Vaccine Information Center has paid for ads to run on in-flight Delta airline TVs. These ads give what can charitably be called misleading information about vaccines.

...

The second bit of news is so appalling it’s difficult to overstate. On Facebook, parents belonging to an antivax group were encouraging others to send postal mail to each containing items like lollipops infected with saliva containing chicken pox.


I am speechless.
I've been posting this on both my facebook page and our SFN facebook page. (Not the BA link. But still...) Now I have to wonder why you didn't see it?

Anyhow, people should go sign the petition .

http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-delta-to-stop-putting-their-passengers-health-at-risk
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marfknox
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Posted - 11/05/2011 :  13:15:05   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit marfknox's Homepage  Send marfknox an AOL message Send marfknox a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Kil, I looked through the "Health" folder to see if anyone else has posted recently on this topic and didn't see anything. The last post I see from you in the list is this. What have I missed? Maybe I missed it because it's been buried by all the stupidity from the latest trolls.
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Kil
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USA
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Posted - 11/05/2011 :  13:35:19   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Kil's Homepage  Send Kil an AOL message  Send Kil a Yahoo! Message Send Kil a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by marfknox

Kil, I looked through the "Health" folder to see if anyone else has posted recently on this topic and didn't see anything. The last post I see from you in the list is this. What have I missed? Maybe I missed it because it's been buried by all the stupidity from the latest trolls.
No. You were right to post it here. And I should have. But I did post it three times on facebook. So I was wondering why you didn't see those posts.
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marfknox
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Posted - 11/05/2011 :  14:02:41   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit marfknox's Homepage  Send marfknox an AOL message Send marfknox a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I have so many FB friends and am on a few groups on FB so if there have been posts on SFN's page they've been buried by a gazillion other notifications I get. I don't bother going to SFN's FB page on my own since I come here directly.
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Dave W.
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Posted - 11/05/2011 :  16:32:20   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I caught both items on Orac's blog:

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/11/vaccine_injury_awareness_week_joe_mercol.php
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/11/pox_packages_child_abuse_and_the_violati.php
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