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SidDithers

(44,228 posts)
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 09:25 AM Dec 2014

Why vaccines are important, Comically...

Saw this on Phil Plait's blog yesterday and thought it was worth sharing.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/12/15/vaccines_comic_by_maki_naro.html

Speaking of vaccines, my pal Maki Naro is a fantastic illustrator and pro-science guy, and he just put up a wonderful comic about why vaccines are important.

I love this. He hits on lots of critical topics, like how our immune system works, how vaccines prime that system to fight off diseases, why herd immunity is important, and why it's hard to keep up with evolving viruses.




Link to the full comic is here, and it's really good:
https://medium.com/the-nib/vaccines-work-here-are-the-facts-5de3d0f9ffd0


Kennedy idolizers beware, tho. A mild shot is taken at anti-vax asshat RFK Jr.

Sid
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Why vaccines are important, Comically... (Original Post) SidDithers Dec 2014 OP
Who Are You Going To Believe? Sparhawk60 Dec 2014 #1
k&r tammywammy Dec 2014 #2
These panels map the spread of Idiocracy in the U.S.A... hunter Dec 2014 #3
I have a lot of friends who don't vaccinate gollygee Dec 2014 #4
That was incredible! NuclearDem Dec 2014 #5
I know people who are anti-vaxxers. frogmarch Dec 2014 #6

gollygee

(22,336 posts)
4. I have a lot of friends who don't vaccinate
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 11:56 AM
Dec 2014

and who advised me not to, and when I was pregnant with my first I did a great deal of research about this, because what my friends said was scary. But every single anti-vax article I was sent seemed to be full of fallacies and questionable logic. I don't see how anyone falls for this. Especially the link to autism. There's some weird irony that a huge number of the children of my friends who don't vaccinate have autism. Kids who have never had a single vaccination. Yet they still say that vaccines are why autism rates have gone up. Their own circle and their own experience would seem to prove otherwise.

frogmarch

(12,153 posts)
6. I know people who are anti-vaxxers.
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 12:28 PM
Dec 2014

I posted the link on Facebook in hopes they'll either see it and appreciate knowing the truth, or else just unfriend me.

Thanks for posting this!

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