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In reply to the discussion: SOME DOCTORS WON'T SEE PATIENTS WITH ANTI-VACCINE VIEWS [View all]proverbialwisdom
(4,959 posts)37. Selectively ignoring inconvenient science is an unsustainable approach.
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send them into the arms of quacks? maybe they can just start the pray away the sickness thing
msongs
Jan 2015
#2
Selectively ignoring inconvenient science is an unsustainable approach.
proverbialwisdom
Jan 2015
#37
Good. Babies won't be infected with measles or whooping cough when they visit that doctor's office.
JDPriestly
Jan 2015
#10
Page 30: "...JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE GINSBERG joins, dissenting."
proverbialwisdom
Jan 2015
#21
No, Kaiser Permante Chairman Bernard Tyson via CNBC. Watch the video here.
proverbialwisdom
Jan 2015
#35
Nuance, please. See IACC Transcript: "They are two different things and we call it all autism."
proverbialwisdom
Jan 2015
#60
That is not settled science no matter how many times you repeat yourself. (nt)
proverbialwisdom
Jan 2015
#71
Find me a single direct link to Natural News. ANS: DOES NOT EXIST. I don't read the site ever.
proverbialwisdom
Jan 2015
#52
AOA posts wouldn't survive the DU jury system if what you claim is true, but it's not. Sorry. (nt)
proverbialwisdom
Jan 2015
#55
It's science, not woo. Otherwise it would be hidden by the discerning juries on DU. (nt)
proverbialwisdom
Jan 2015
#72
It's hard to justify hiding unpopular material when it's clearly fact based science, and DU has not.
proverbialwisdom
Jan 2015
#78
In my experience on this topic, posts with scientific citations stay & op-eds are instantly canned.
proverbialwisdom
Jan 2015
#81
That's a malicious mischaracterization. I can count my total hidden posts on one hand. (nt)
proverbialwisdom
Jan 2015
#88
You want a food fight; I'm not interested. Get up to speed or don't, your prerogative.
proverbialwisdom
Jan 2015
#54
You're talking about people who believe their doctor wants to poison their child
jeff47
Jan 2015
#41
If they stopped seeing every patient who wouldn't follow their advice, they would go bankrupt.
livetohike
Jan 2015
#28
I'm all for taunting your T-cells with mashed bacteria husks, but they seem madder at
MisterP
Jan 2015
#67
Substantive pushback comment... "even pro-vaccine parents have a threshold of compliance."
proverbialwisdom
Jan 2015
#73