A vaccination poll needs help

[Daniel Weinstein]

I'm a new member and can't put up a link yet, but wanted to point to a poll out in the innerwebs that's be hijacked by the antivax brigade. It's on a cause called "The Immunization Initiative" at causes.com. The question it asks is "The Vaccination Question: If I had a young child I would give my child...". The current winning answer at 49% is "No vaccines at all. I would get a religious/philosophical exemption. I may vaccinate my child homoeopathically." There have been 900+ votes so far.

I created it a couple of weeks ago, mostly out of curiosity about how it would go. Well, now I know. The comments are busy and very few of the crazies go unchallenged, but there are a lot of them.

I'd invite you to google it and have a vote and a look. I'm going to kill it soon if the cavalry doesn't arrive. Thanks.

 

[Tiktaalik]

Here's your link:

http://www.causes.com/causes/787378-the-immunization-initiative

 

[Pantaz]

FYI: Requires Facebook login.
FYI 2: My redirect-blocker caught this when I clicked the first option:

https://www.facebook.com/dialog/oauth?api_key=2318966938&app_id=2318966938&client_id=2318966938&display=popup&domain=www.causes.com&locale=en_US&origin=1&redirect_uri=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.ak.facebook.com%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter.php%3Fversion%3D11%23cb%3Df1d13350a30554%26origin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.causes.com%252Ff2f5ad3bcff305%26domain%3Dwww.causes.com%26relation%3Dopener%26frame%3Df1e243896797a4&response_type=token%2Csigned_request&scope=email%2Cpublish_stream%2Cuser_birthday%2Cpublish_actions&sdk=joey

I haven't bothered to decipher the string, but seeing "&scope=email%2Cpublish_stream%2Cuser_birthday%2Cpublish_actions" in it is enough to make me wary.

 

[Orphia Nay]

Voted pro-vaccine. (I've already signed other causes.com petitions and haven't had any problems with the site.)

 

[LarianLeQuella]

Will have to wait until I get home to sign since it requires facebook. I have also used causes.com with no problems before.

 

[Acleron]

Voted for vaccination.

 

[dlorde]

... The current winning answer at 49% is "No vaccines at all. I would get a religious/philosophical exemption. I may vaccinate my child homoeopathically."

Reading some of those comments makes me glad I don't have kids. The anti-vaxers don't seem to understand any of it. Their unvaccinated kids will only benefit from herd immunity until vaccination levels drop below around 80%. Maybe when their kids start suffering and dying from vaccine-preventable diseases (as has already happened in some places) they'll realise their error - too late.

What am I saying, they'll probably blame some Big Pharma or government conspiracy...