Make America Dumb has succeeded. In another act of ideological madness the head of the HHS (I can hardly bring myself to type his name) has cancelled funding for mRNA vaccine research. This is MADness: another act of impossible stupidity and cruelty, founded entirely on deliberate ignorance, fear-mongering, and a callous dismissal of years of hard work by thousands of dedicated people.
The anti-vaccine crowd has never been known for any kind of consistency or coherence in their world-view. This is an unfortunate consequence of the pseudo-spiritual woo-woo that became mainstream in the 70s and soon replaced any sort of intellectual rigor when it came to health and disease, nutrition, and fitness.
Criticism of the medical establishment and Big Pharma is certainly warranted. Things could be a lot better. But substituting hippy bullshit for actual research is just plain stupid.
mRNA vaccines are part of the movement toward more targeted, more personalized medical interventions called immunotherapy. Even the crystal-gazers want a better immune system! Well, this is how you get there. Cutting off funding for life-saving science because you are pandering to the dumbest bloc of voters in the country is morally reprehensible. That man is scum, and his boss is the Scumbag-in-Chief.
Thank you, anti-vaxxers! Your mentally bankrupt “philosophy” is going to bite you (and the rest of us) in the ass! Once you start down the road of trashing legitimate intellectual endeavors—like cancer studies—and the places where they are done—like universities—you will find it hard to recover. The people who do this work will go somewhere else. The companies that partner with these institutions will lose intellectual capital and their businesses will suffer. And the people like us who might benefit someday from quality scientific work will never see those fruits because the trees will have been ripped out by the roots.
This is how you Make America Dumb. This is MADness.
Mark C. O'Connor 
Using the label ‘anti-vaxers’ is very ignorant. I and most of my friends & colleagues chose not to be impregnated with a cocktail of synthetic chemicals that had never been subjected to even one published long term study in a recognised medical journal. And guess what, not one of us ever suffered any symptoms during the recent alleged pandemic. The more suitable expression for people like me is Vaccine-Cautious – meaning we choose to conduct our own due diligence, then make an informed decision before blindly accepting the advice of a Government that has no knowledge of each person’s medical history. I, like many other young children, have been inoculated with the MMR vaccine which is tried and tested for safety and efficacy.
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