{"id":5793,"date":"2011-12-29T13:01:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T19:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1786"},"modified":"2011-12-29T13:01:06","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T19:01:06","slug":"pull-nvics-anti-vaccine-ad-from-the-abc-screen-in-times-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/29\/pull-nvics-anti-vaccine-ad-from-the-abc-screen-in-times-square\/","title":{"rendered":"Pull NVIC&#8217;s anti-vaccine ad from the ABC Screen in Times Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.change.org\/petitions\/abc-pull-nvics-anti-vaccine-ad-from-the-abc-screen-in-times-square\">Check it out:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>National Vaccine Information Center&#8217;s ad running on the ABC Full Circle Screen in Times Square spreads needless fear about childhood vaccinations.<\/p>\n<p>An ad by the NVIC earlier this year on a different screen in Times Square and an NVIC PSA that was playing on Delta Airline flights was condemned by the American Academy of Pediatrics as being harmful, unfounded, unscientific and misleading.<\/p>\n<p>The NVIC is a notorious anti-vaccine organization, whose name and website are designed to give the impression that they are a legitimate government agency. However their &#8220;vaccine information&#8221; is designed to frighten the public and encourage individuals to opt out of protecting themselves and their children through immunization.<\/p>\n<p>This is an especially dangerous time to be spreading fear about vaccines in New York City, where the NYC Department of Health has confirmed 126 cases of whooping cough since August 2011. Whooping cough is a serious disease and infants are especially at risk of serious illness or even death. Vaccines are our most powerful tool in defense against diseases like whooping cough. However, if NVIC\u2019s ad is successful, we may see more people refusing vaccinations for themselves and their children, and a rise in illness and death within the US.<\/p>\n<p>NVIC\u2019s Times Square ad is misleading and downright dangerous. ABC and Disney, you need to take responsibility for protecting public health by pulling NVIC\u2019s harmful ad before it can do more damage.<\/p>\n<p>This petition was created by the Women Thinking Free Foundation. For more information, please visit the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hugmeimvaccinated.org\/\"> http:\/\/www.hugmeimvaccinated.org<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hat Tip: Bob<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check it out: National Vaccine Information Center&#8217;s ad running on the ABC Full Circle Screen in Times Square spreads needless fear about childhood vaccinations. An ad by the NVIC earlier this year on a different screen in Times Square and an NVIC PSA that was playing on Delta Airline flights was condemned by the American &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/29\/pull-nvics-anti-vaccine-ad-from-the-abc-screen-in-times-square\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pull NVIC&#8217;s anti-vaccine ad from the ABC Screen in Times Square<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1vr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}