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Anti-vaccine nonsense spurred NY's largest outbreak in decades
Health officials in New York are cautiously optimistic that they have a large measles outbreak under control after tackling the noxious anti-vaccine myths and unfounded fears that fueled the disease's spread.
Since last fall, New York has tallied 177 confirmed cases of measles, the largest outbreak the state has seen in decades. It began with infected travelers, arriving from parts of Israel and Europe where the highly contagious disease was spreading. In New York, that spread has largely been confined to ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities. As measles rippled through those insular religious communities, health officials ran into members who were wary of outsiders as well as those who harbor harmful myths and fears about vaccines. This included the completely false-yet-pernicious belief that the measles vaccine causes autism.
To quash the outbreak, health officials met with rabbis and pediatricians in the community, who in turned urged community members to be vigilant and, above all, get vaccinated, according to The New York Times. "Good people, great parents were terrified," Rabbi Yakov Horowitz, founder of Darchei Noam yeshiva in Monsey in Rockland County, told the Times. Despite the fears, he insisted parents vaccinate their children. "They felt that I was asking to give their children something that would harm them."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 19 2019, @08:54PM
No humans, no scientific discovery. Kinda that simple.
Is there still objective reality that science and math attempt to describe? As far as I can tell, sure. But you've acknowledged science is a process, a methodology or framework is what you said. It is not the reality itself. Science is the description used by humans for that reality, and without humans you have not science.
And it matters because otherwise you're holding humanity up to a standard it can never reach. (A perfect modeling of that objectivity). No wonder it won't meet your standards.
Aside from that I also think you have one of the worst cases of the grass being greener in a different country that I've ever seen. But I could be wrong. Either way I'm satisfied with the vaccines I've received and promote others to have. Then again, international travel is out of my economic reach.... And the reality is that many of the largest drug recalls in history were from countries other than the U.S. Many were inside the U.S. also, of course. But nowhere near universally. It would be interesting to look and see how many recalls of medication actually originated from work done in countries outside the U.S. (i.e. why is it always in the U.S. that the bad drugs seem to be discovered, but I might be wrong there, too). Greed does not know boundaries, and nor does government corruption (if that is what it be).