skepchick ACTION ALERT! Stop Times Square Anti-Vax Ads

[HuckleB]

http://skepchick.org/2011/04/action-alert-stop-times-square-anti-vax-ads/

"April 28. Times Square. Mercola and the National Vaccine Information Center are running an anti-vaccine “PSA” on CBS Outdoor’s JumboTron on 42nd street. And the ad will be seen by hundreds of thousands of people.

Mercola and the NVIC are determined to convince Americans that vaccines are dangerous and optional, that more harm is done by administering vaccines than by letting infectious disease ravage a population.

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Right now:

*A measles outbreak has hospitalized up to a half dozen young children in Minnesota. This outbreak is directly linked to Andrew Wakefield’s hoax of an anti-MMR study.

*Blue Mountain School (PreK – in Roanoke, Va, which does not require it’s students to be vaccinated, is closed due to a whooping cough outbreak. The small school of 45 students has at least 30 confirmed cases between students and staff.

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This disinformation campaign is despicable and ludicrous. It's time to stand up against those who want to put others at risk, and who are trying everything they can to convince even more people to put themselves and others at risk.

:mad: :banghead:

[blondeatlast]

1. Recced and still at zero. The Jenny McCarthy fanclan needs a SERIOUS dose--of history.

I'll call and raise you a :mad: :banghead: and a )kick in the ass) smiley.

[HuckleB]

4. +1

[jmowreader]

2. I hope the anti-Mercola people have money

The only things CBS gives a shit about are Money and Not Pissing Off The Republicans. You could write an ad that says President Obama's not eligible to be president because he's a Klingon and they'd run it. You know they would. So...unless someone can give CBS more money than Mercola is willing to, his anti-vax campaign will run on the Jumbotron.

[FLAprogressive]

3. Where do anti-vaxxers get this kind of money? Wonder if the alt. medicine racket is funding it?

[HuckleB]

7. Probably from the same people who've unrecced this from +5 to +2.

[K8-EEE]

5. VERY slippery slope.

I'm sure Big Pharm would like to stop ALL criticism of ALL medicines of any kind. Rebuttals if you like, debate the subject, but no way STOP to the argument. There's this thing called free speech.

[HuckleB]

6. Hogwash.

That's an old tool of propagandists everywhere. Actually, it's a double tool: Slippery slope and BIG PHARMA!

Nice try, but BIG FAIL! Double FAIL!

[K8-EEE]

8. Yeah right, no criticism of any vaccinations must ever be tolerated

Throw em in the Gulag! LOL, yeah OK whatever!

[HuckleB]

9. And another logical fallacy response!

Shocking!

:rofl: