{"id":6889,"date":"2010-01-28T18:40:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T18:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/why-one-parent-decided-to-vaccinate-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-01-28T18:40:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T18:40:02","slug":"why-one-parent-decided-to-vaccinate-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/why-one-parent-decided-to-vaccinate-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Why one parent decided to vaccinate | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When confronted with arguments over an issue, how do you decide what to do? Especially when, to you, both sides seem to make good points? <\/p><p>I&rsquo;ve written about this before, and won&rsquo;t belabor the logic process that goes into decision making over a contentious issue &mdash; even if the controversy is manufactured, as it is for vaccinations. <\/p><p>Instead, I&rsquo;ll give you an anecdote. When making a scientific argument anecdotes should be avoided, since they are the beginning of inquiry, not the endpoint. But I&rsquo;m not trying to make a scientific argument here, I&rsquo;m hoping to support the decision making process&hellip; and sometimes a good example is worth a dozen detailed instructions, so read <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.skeparent.com\/posts\/2010\/1\/13\/why-we-changed-our-minds-and-started-to-vaccinate.html\">this essay by a worried parent over his decision to vaccinate his child<\/a>. It&rsquo;s a wonderful tale from someone who managed to find the narrow path of reality having once been well away from it. <\/p><p>If you&rsquo;re a new parent wondering whether to vaccinate your children, then you absolutely have to read that essay. You&rsquo;re not alone out there. There are lots of people who have been through what you have, and some of them have figured out how to make the right decision.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/kqMTPtnWfCpu3WOFwVI23sgv27Q\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a536a_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/kqMTPtnWfCpu3WOFwVI23sgv27Q\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ea86b_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\/ea86b_dLC6nDBjoFI\" 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\/ea86b_3cxkERyKCzE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When confronted with arguments over an issue, how do you decide what to do? Especially when, to you, both sides seem to make good points? I&rsquo;ve written about this before, and won&rsquo;t belabor the logic process that goes into decision &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/why-one-parent-decided-to-vaccinate-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-6889","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\/6889"}],"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=6889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}