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Anti-Vaxxer Bets Scientists $100,000 They Can’t Prove Measles Exists; Anti-Vaxxer Loses $100,000
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/03/13/anti-vaxxer-bets-scientists-100000-they-cant-prove-measles-exists-anti-vaxxer-loses-100000/A vocal (and apparently very wealthy) biologist and outspoken “vaccination skeptic” was so confident that not only do vaccinations not work, but the measles wasn’t even real, that he made a public bet with the world’s scientists that if they could prove the measles virus exists, he’d pay them. Hilariously, one medical doctor obliged....
Calling his bluff, a German doctor David Barden gathered the most up-to-date and comprehensive research on the study of the measles virus and sent the evidence to Lanka’s house.
Predictably, Lanka took one look at the combined effort of thousands of scientists, decades of research and the reams of data compiled and declared none of it valid. He reportedly refused to pay Dr. Barden – who then took the biologist to court.
Unfortunately for our intrepid anti-vaxxer, a German judge reviewed the research and – like most rational people – decided that the existence of the measles was fairly obvious. The doctor had fulfilled all the requirements Lanka had demanded (which in this case was probably not that difficult). Lanka was ordered by law to pay out the $106,000 he had promised.
Calling his bluff, a German doctor David Barden gathered the most up-to-date and comprehensive research on the study of the measles virus and sent the evidence to Lanka’s house.
Predictably, Lanka took one look at the combined effort of thousands of scientists, decades of research and the reams of data compiled and declared none of it valid. He reportedly refused to pay Dr. Barden – who then took the biologist to court.
Unfortunately for our intrepid anti-vaxxer, a German judge reviewed the research and – like most rational people – decided that the existence of the measles was fairly obvious. The doctor had fulfilled all the requirements Lanka had demanded (which in this case was probably not that difficult). Lanka was ordered by law to pay out the $106,000 he had promised.
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Amazon.com Commentors Attack Anti-Measles Vaccine Children's Book
rocktivity
...“Don’t overlook the lesser known Dr. Seuss books in this series: Oh The Places You’ll Itch, How The Grinch Caught Chlamydia, And To Think That I Contracted It On Mulberry Street, The 500 Days In ICU Of Bartholomew Cubbins, and If I Ran The Mortuary."
rocktivity
He meant to type "Bigfoot" and his computer autocorrected it to "measles".
"It is a psychosomatic illness," he told regional paper Suedkurier. "People become ill after traumatic separations."
What an idiot!
