jenny mccarthy wants your kid to get measles: autism, vaccines, and stupid idiots

Thats splitting hairs, I assume saying fresh veggies is more like, as opposed to processed foods with maybe some veg in them (like, I dunno, corn cakes or readymade hash browns or whatever).

Hm. To me that refers to the produce aisle or farmer's market.

no he means fresh but it's not about the nutrients it's because sometimes when you look at a bag of frozen vegetables like maybe those little cubed carrots it can make you sad and it's bad for your health to be too sad.

Not if you arrange them into a face! A smiling face only, obv.

Also tbqh very few frozen veg taste any good: peas and corn the exception (just), but blech, frozen string beans or carrots or broccoli? Gross and watery, no thanks. Also more pricey than fresh (here anyway).

oh, it's much cheaper to buy frozen than fresh at my grocery store. they work out pretty well if you defrost them by running under a tap in a spaghetti strainer. anyway, this has been a digression.

fresh fruit and vegetables
hate the shit out of this phrase. frozen vegetables are at least as healthy for you as fresh ones, if not more so.

Well, here you are assuming that this phrase means P(x & y), where it may actually mean Px & y. Fresh(fruit & vegetables) or fresh fruit, and vegetables?

Got it. Frozen "california blend" = a-ok. "frozen blueberries" = road to deathsville.

is there any way they could unearth like frozen blueberries from the Pleistocene and make them a real connoisseur thing - Fruits of Lascaux or something

frozen blueberries are great for baking

also i mean if you live in a part of the world that has no fucking fruit for ~6 months except for cellar-stored apples well into the second part of their half-life, your options aren't great short of frozen veg

Pa will make it to the trading post come spring.

i'm wondering through welling tears how a little cubed carrots cake would turn out.

I use frozen blueberries all the time. In fact I just ate some in my overnight oats.

What does any of this have to do with vaccines? Someone whose blog I read was talking about not vaccinating her kid and then all these other people commenting were like "I have 3 unvaxed (they actually wrote it like that) kids and they're super healthy!") and it all made me very sad and upset.

Started off as a tangent about the magical thinking people do that's ignorant of evidence-based science.

"I don't think dirt or getting sick makes you a weak person; your immune system needs to work with things," said Reber, whose children attend the Greenwood School in the San Francisco Bay area town of Mill Valley. "We certainly don't want to go back to having polio, but on the other hand, I don't think we need to eradicate all the childhood diseases

I might be way off base but isn't the whole point of immunization to develop the immune systems memory and therefore act swiftly if it comes into contact with it at a future date causing an immunity to the disease?

And how fucking selfish are these assholes who are happy to A be happy for their kids to get sick and B infect other kids.

I can't even imagine what kind of hell these Jenny McCarthy types are going to but I imagine it will be pretty spotty and gimpy

Into contact with the disease is what I meant

My child is special and thus deserves special treatment etc

It's also a claim for authenticity. Your immune system needs to get its hands dirty, break a sweat, catch a bit of a tan, instead of sitting around the basement all afternoon zapping virtual virions with the iPad and Xbox. The tomatoes taste better if you grow them yourself! Same with measles.

"My mumps went to the SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS"

B Cell Boot Camp

School of hard pox, more like.

Organic free range polio

Why when I was a boy I had chicken pox in every orifice of my body. Toughen up kid!

seems relevant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMvMb90hem8

<3 him

"Get in the fuckin' sack" should be the stock response to all of these folks.

irl lols @ toothiologist (also Noddy lols)

http://www.whale.to/

love this kind of stuff. love you internet.

Holy shit that whole site needs to be on why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk?

http://www.whale.to/a/534439_354324334653869_1687636089_n.jpg

yeah I don't know either

Loooooool

Is that Brian May?

John Pertwee iirc

oh shit it really is Brian May

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/brian-may-badgers-best-friend-8163734.html

OMG

"As an astrophysicist, here are my thoughts on badgers . . ."

where do I sign up

Fat Bottom Badgers, U Make The Rockin World Go Round

VG we made the same joke in two different threads at nearly the same time HIGH FIVE

BEGIN THE SINGULARITY

we've also derailed two threads simultaneously

:/

http://dejareviewer.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/decker-joins-with-ilia-vger-to-become-a-new-lifeform.jpg

V'GER WILL MERGE WITH THE CREATOR

Saw this at the airport yesterday. Never knew these guys spread out into the printed quackery as well, but you might as well be consistent with the accuracy of your views of medicine along with your views of religion

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/318828_10151088791066596_1769992494_n.jpg

bringing up girls
by
DR. JAMES DOBSON

http://www.marriedtothesea.com/120412/evil-mr-vaccine.gif

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2012/12/04/congress_hearing_on_vaccines_is_a_farce_of_dangerous_antivax_nonsense.html

god damn it

U.N. Halts Vaccine Work in Pakistan After Killings
By DECLAN WALSH
New attacks on health workers came a day after women who were attempting to immunize children were killed.