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An amendment from Italy's anti-establishment government that removes mandatory vaccination for schoolchildren is sending shock waves through the country's scientific and medical community.
It suspends for a year a law that requires parents to provide proof of 10 routine vaccinations when enrolling their children in nurseries or preschools. The amendment was approved by Italy's upper house of parliament on Friday by 148 to 110 votes and still has to pass the lower house.
The law had originally been introduced by the Democratic Party in July 2017 amid an ongoing outbreak of measles that saw 5,004 cases reported in 2017 -- the second-highest figure in Europe after Romania -- according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Italy accounted for 34% of all measles cases reported by countries in the European Economic Area, the center said.
Italy's Five Star movement and its coalition partner, the far-right League, both voiced their opposition to compulsory vaccinations, claiming they discourage school inclusion.
English Language Source: https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/07/health/italy-anti-vaccine-law-measles-intl/index.html
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @09:22PM (4 children)
Ahh so you don't care that pretty much everything he has said... "psychic seals"... is a bunch of baloney.
(Score: 2, Disagree) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday August 08 2018, @10:02PM (3 children)
Nope. Math is math is math. It cares not for my opinion or yours. It's either correct or it isn't.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @10:10PM (1 child)
That's the most faith-based shit I've ever heard. I guess that's what happens when you have so much scorn for the humanities that you end up with your bullshit detector atrophied to the size of a pea.
Math is only a tool to answer questions, it isn't some grand oracle of truth.
What matters is the question being asked. The charlatans work overtime to make sure that the questions they ask will produce the answers that they want. They are ninjas of decontextualization. You are that sucker that is born every minute.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 09 2018, @02:45AM
But you don't mind sounding like an oracle. You mutter unrelated phrases, in unknown tongues, while the main characters ooh and ahhh in wonder. Centuries later, some moron will look back, and proclaim that "Oh, THIS is what he meant!"
Speak in plain English or get lost.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by tangomargarine on Thursday August 09 2018, @03:07PM
You've heard the phrase before, "lies, damn lies, and statistics"?
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"