{"id":196381,"date":"2008-05-02T05:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/02\/ignorance-spreads-measles\/"},"modified":"2008-05-02T05:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T10:20:00","slug":"ignorance-spreads-measles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/02\/ignorance-spreads-measles\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignorance Spreads Measles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the hed on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonindependent.com\/view\/ignorance-spreads\">article in the The Washington Independent<\/a>, and it&#8217;s a good three word synopsis of the superstition and hysteria that is the anti-vaccination movement.<\/p>\n<p>See my earlier posts on the subject  <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/autism-debate-strains-family-and-its.html\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/parents-putting-children-and-community.html\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/obama-just-pissed-me-off.html\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/me-bad-hillary-wanking-on-autism-too.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the hed on the article in the The Washington Independent, and it&#8217;s a good three word synopsis of the superstition and hysteria that is the anti-vaccination movement. See my earlier posts on the subject here, here, here, and here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1002,1150,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-good-writing","category-public-health","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}