{"id":11636,"date":"2010-03-11T18:30:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T18:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/religious-antivax-sect-implicated-in-deaths-of-100-children-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-03-11T18:30:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T18:30:13","slug":"religious-antivax-sect-implicated-in-deaths-of-100-children-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/religious-antivax-sect-implicated-in-deaths-of-100-children-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Religious antivax sect implicated in deaths of 100 children | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Word from <del>New Zealand<\/del> Zimbabwe is that a religious sect there &mdash; which believes in prayer over vaccinations &mdash; <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/africa\/article332775.ece\">may be responsible for the deaths of <em>over one hundred children<\/em> from measles<\/a>.<\/p><p>I believe people have the right to practice their religious beliefs&hellip; up until they start to hurt others. It has been proven over and again that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.skepdic.com\/prayer.html\">prayer does nothing to heal disease<\/a> over <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/skeptico.blogs.com\/skeptico\/2005\/07\/prayer_still_us.html\">the placebo effect<\/a>, while vaccinations have saved hundreds of millions of people. That&rsquo;s math I can do pretty easily.<\/p><p>If this story is true, I certainly hope that the people involved are introduced to the inside of a jail cell for a long, long time. They can happily pray there all they want, and on the outside those children can get the vaccinations that will save their lives.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/IFrCf8KYawFuqszdkeuzq8aTrp4\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2a5a4_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/IFrCf8KYawFuqszdkeuzq8aTrp4\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2a5a4_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2a5a4_Efdb0h54uQk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2a5a4_cKXK5Cf9fgY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word from New Zealand Zimbabwe is that a religious sect there &mdash; which believes in prayer over vaccinations &mdash; may be responsible for the deaths of over one hundred children from measles.I believe people have the right to practice their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/religious-antivax-sect-implicated-in-deaths-of-100-children-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}