Now that Sesame Street has brought Julia, its first autistic character to the show (she was previously in books and online cartoons), the anti-vaccine movement is hopping mad about it. You see, Julia is actually a way for pharmaceutical companies to normalize "vaccine injuries." ...read more
Remember David and Collet Stephan, Canada's most infamous religious wack-jobs and practitioners of the homeopathic, anti-vaccination lifestyle? When last we checked in with their story, they had just been convicted of allowing their unvaccinated two-and-a-half-year-old son to die ...read more
Because sitting back and doing nothing while your child dies of meningitis is considered unacceptable in most civilized societies, a jury in Canada just convicted a mother and father of failing to provide for their 2-and-a-half-year-old son when he became deathly ill four years ...read more
If you're someone who trusts homeopathic remedies to the exclusion of all or even many advancements in modern medicine, you're incredibly foolish. If you're someone who has faith in bizarre religious superstition rather than an acceptance of proven scientific fact, you're ...read more
Always remember, this never had to happen. In a sane America, this never would've happened. It's staggering to think that so many people failed in their basic responsibility as parents and citizens and were willing to put others at risk in the name of groundless paranoia that ...read more
The Disneyland measles outbreak is finally over. It was declared dead just a few weeks ago by health officials after enough time had passed with no new reported cases of the disease. All told, 147 people in the U.S. were infected and sickened by the outbreak, which began at ...read more
If you've ever been unlucky enough to get into a fruitless debate with someone who believes that vaccines are part of a nefarious conspiracy by Big Pharma to give children autism, you're aware of the website Natural News. It's the go-to resource for conspiracist pseudoscience, a ...read more
Let's see if we can make this as clear as possible. If you're taking your kid to see a doctor and that doctor has agreed to work with you in coming up with a vaccine schedule for your child that makes you more comfortable than the CDC's official schedule, that person is a ...read more
Jon Stewart is leaving us, Walter White's lawyer came back, and Brian Williams screwed us all over. Here's the week that was, at The Daily Banter. Did Jon Stewart Finally Just Burn Out (and If So, Can We Really Blame Him)? Banter's own Chez Pazienza has an interesting theory ...read more
We were warned this would happen. No one can be shocked the day finally arrived when a disease once effectively eradicated came roaring back to life within the comfy First World confines of the U.S. We always knew that the irresponsible and ignorant anti-vaccine movement would ...read more
