OK Bill Maher, it’s nice you won a prestigious award for your movie, but stop calling yourself a rationalist. Your stance seems to be not that we don’t know anything about God, but that we don’t know anything, period. The fact is, we do know some things. We know exactly how safe vaccines are (which is to say; not perfectly, but a hell of a lot safer than the thing vaccinated against), for example. You can’t use science to speak against religion, and then ignore the science that supports vaccination.
Far be it from me to hope any individual gets swine flu, but Bill Maher is rich enough that he can keep himself far away from dense crowds if he wants to. Not so the school children and people on the street and factories and offices who can wind up terribly sick and maybe even dying from H1N1. And that’s the problem with anti-vaccination talk: it literally ends up with people dying from preventable diseases. If Maher has scientific evidence that vaccines are dangerous and ineffective, he should present it. Otherwise, he should admit he is wrong about it and get the vaccine on live TV to try and undo some of the damage he’s done.
Not only to public health, but to the public reputation of rationalism as well.
Pour that man a drink. He's earned it.
"OK Bill Maher, it’s nice you won a prestigious award for your movie..."
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