{"id":32577,"date":"2011-03-13T15:43:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T15:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/the-panic-virus-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-03-13T15:43:09","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T15:43:09","slug":"the-panic-virus-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/the-panic-virus-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"The Panic Virus | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/39bfc_panicviruscover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"448\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-29373\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\">As I write this, I just got back from hearing author Seth Mnookin give a talk here in Boulder about his book, <em>The Panic Virus<\/em> (the talk was sponsored by my friends at the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.immunizeforgood.com\/\">Colorado Children&rsquo;s Immunization Coalition<\/a> &mdash; I love those folks). It&rsquo;s an excellent book about the rise and power of the antivax movement. I recommend reading it. That is, if your stomach doesn&rsquo;t get upset over the events it describes. Mine did.<\/p><p>The talk was quite good, with him going over the basics of the people who fight against vaccinations. The most interesting part was during the Q&amp;A, when a woman sitting right behind me starting soapboxing about how vaccines weren&rsquo;t tested enough, and there weren&rsquo;t enough studies showing their safety, and so on. It was clear after she said just a few words that she was from some antivax organization, and I found out afterward she was from Safeminds &mdash; a group that tried to get <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/skepchick.org\/2010\/11\/lets-all-go-to-the-movies-and-save-ourselves-some-lives\/\">really awful ads<\/a> placed in movie theaters but which was <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/skepchick.org\/2010\/11\/good-guys-win\/\">fought tooth and nail by Skepchicks<\/a>.<\/p><p>The woman&rsquo;s tactics were pretty simple: sow doubt, and use bad ...<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/FRk47brl4aCxsncgqohaoUZkh7I\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/39bfc_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/FRk47brl4aCxsncgqohaoUZkh7I\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/39bfc_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\/39bfc_RBz7fxYMb0k\" 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\/39bfc_R1gzl3m3R-c\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I write this, I just got back from hearing author Seth Mnookin give a talk here in Boulder about his book, The Panic Virus (the talk was sponsored by my friends at the Colorado Children&rsquo;s Immunization Coalition &mdash; I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/the-panic-virus-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-32577","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\/32577"}],"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=32577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}