No Shit: Disneyland Measles Outbreak Linked to Anti-Vaxxers

Disneyland has spent the last few months battling a measles outbreak, which scientists have now linked to—wait for it—low vaccination rates. Huh. It's almost as if diseases that we essentially eradicated will return if children aren't goddamn vaccinated.
Fox News Guest: Mandating Vaccines Could Lead To 'Forced Abortion'
Where would we be without Fox's incessant, nonsensical asides on the dangers of big government and abortion? On Saturday, Hedge fund founder Jonathan Hoenig appeared on Fox News to discuss mandatory vaccines and wound up, unsurprisingly, at abortion. "Think about where this could lead if government gets involved in…
GOP Senator: Forcing Food Service Workers to Wash Hands Is Un-American
Somehow—how, Lord, how—we're in the midst of yet another debate about mandatory vaccination, even as Disneyland-born measles crawls across seven states. Clearly, now's also the time for Republicans to show how much they hate oppressive Big Government rules—like vaccines, of course, or forcing people who handle your…
Dammit, Stop Using the Amish as an Excuse Not to Vaccinate Your Kids
Against all logic, reason and every shred of credible scientific evidence, the "don't vaccinate your kids" brigade is still at it. (Thanks for the resurgence of whooping cough and polio, guys!) The latest pawn in their apparent bid to kill everyone from easily preventable diseases: the Amish, courtesty of yet another…
California Announces Worst Whooping Cough Epidemic Since the 1940s
A total of 9,935 cases of whooping cough were reported this year in California, the State That Can't Catch a Break. "We'd have to go way back to the 1940s to find more cases," says Dr. Eric McDonald, a public health services medical director in San Diego County.
Rich People in Hollywood Aren't Vaccinating Their Children
It's hard to believe that in the year 2014 we are still debating what most scientists believe to be fairly straightforward, research-proved facts. Yet, that is exactly the name of the game when it comes to critics of child vaccinations. While Jenny McCarthy was an excellent and deserving scapegoat for awhile, we can…
Vaccines Cost an Absolute God-Almighty Fortune
While everyone was busy with Facebook fights over the safety of childhood vaccines (GET IT TOGETHER, AMERICA), they've become vastly more expensive. Costs have leapt so high many doctors are struggling to offer them, leaving some parents scrambling for someone to perform this most basic of preventative measures.
Anti-Vaccine and Pro-E-Cig: Jenny McCarthy Is the Queen of Good Choices
Jenny McCarthy was a hot topic in front of the U.S. senate on Wednesday, concerning her role in an e-cigarette campaign that critics argue rolls back anti-tobacco efforts by decades. The Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation questioned Blu eCigs CEO Jason Healy about his decision to use McCarthy in an ad…
Hilariously Scathing Review Rips Into Jenny McCarthy's New Book
Did you know that Jenny McCarthy has written 10 books? Ten! Her latest, Stirring the Pot, is intended to be a "mix of storytelling, sisterly advice, sex appeal, and self-deprecation," but an early review calls it "unfunny," "confusing" and a "contradictory mess" that's "like having a Day-Glo, dumb-feminism-for-dummies…
Alicia Silverstone's Nutty New Parenting Book Is Anti-Vax, Anti-Diaper
I want to say, first of all, that I love Alicia Silverstone so much to death and I always will, and just thinking about her little Cher Horowitz face makes me feel as though an eternal golden summer is reigning in my heart. That said, some of the parenting advice she dispenses in her new book The Kind Mama: A Simple…
Jenny McCarthy has penned an op-ed at the Chicago Sun-Times, where she insists she's never been "anti-vaccine," but rather resides in this new and quickly gentrifying neighborhood called the "gray zone." She also wonders several times, "Where has critical thinking gone?" Well, here is what she believes:
