Comments on: Pull NVIC’s anti-vaccine ad from the ABC Screen in Times Square https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/29/pull-nvics-anti-vaccine-ad-from-the-abc-screen-in-times-square/ Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:14:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: WMDKitty https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/29/pull-nvics-anti-vaccine-ad-from-the-abc-screen-in-times-square/#comment-18983 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:14:45 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1786#comment-18983 Thanks, StevoR. Signed.

]]> By: StevoR https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/29/pull-nvics-anti-vaccine-ad-from-the-abc-screen-in-times-square/#comment-18982 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:33:13 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1786#comment-18982 The Bad Astronomy Blog has a good item on the anti-vax thing here :

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/12/29/stop-antivaxxers-now/

Hope it’s okay to post that here – my apologies and please let me know if not.

@4. WMDKitty : December 30, 2011 at 12:23 am

From there is this link :

http://www.change.org/petitions/abc-pull-nvics-anti-vaccine-ad-from-the-abc-screen-in-times-square

which I presume is the one in question.

]]> By: WMDKitty https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/29/pull-nvics-anti-vaccine-ad-from-the-abc-screen-in-times-square/#comment-18981 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 06:23:19 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1786#comment-18981 Can we please have a link to the petition itself?

]]> By: dougthebox https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/29/pull-nvics-anti-vaccine-ad-from-the-abc-screen-in-times-square/#comment-18980 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:56:35 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1786#comment-18980 Iraqvet1999: your statement about the lack of a vaccine for whooping cough is wrong. The standard vaccination series includes the DPT (diphtheria/pertussis/typhoid). Pertussis is the agent responsible for whooping cough. And this particular vaccine is very effective. (As a physician, I can claim some degree of expertise on the subject.)

]]> By: IraqVet1999 https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/29/pull-nvics-anti-vaccine-ad-from-the-abc-screen-in-times-square/#comment-18979 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 04:11:46 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1786#comment-18979 ummm whooping cough doesn’t have a vaccine and not all vaccines are helpful like the flu vaccine

]]> By: Paul Hunter https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/29/pull-nvics-anti-vaccine-ad-from-the-abc-screen-in-times-square/#comment-18978 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:18:38 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1786#comment-18978 I signed it and a couple of others.
Come on folks add more signatures

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