/sci/ - Science & Math

I got sucked into a your-blog-sucks flamewar with anti-vaxxer morons in a comments forum. I tried to use science and numbers to explain how vaccines work, and how we can understand the difference btw causation and correlation.

I felt like I was kicking myself in the balls because it felt so good when I stopped.

There was just too much crazy. People were coming out of the woodwork screaming about how vaccines are made of dead babies and will cause autism in 105% of the population. Herd immunity was considered a myth. Numerous communicable diseases that used to kill people a century ago were considered nothing to worry about. Anything that had an association with a medical doctor or the government was immediately suspect, so no hope providing counterpoint data.

WTF do you do with these people?