Last night Channel 7 aired a shocking story on vaccinations.
The shock was in its complete lack of tabloid scaremongering, its scientific content and the fact that it was clearly a carefully researched story.
We really needed this. The anti-vaccination crowd has been incredibly vocal of late. The whole vaccines-cause-autism thing just won’t go away, despite its architect Andrew Wakefield being discredited as a fraud.
The anti-vax cause has impassioned believers and celebrity endorsements (most recently Jim Carrey), which have real power to sway a public sadly under-educated on this very important topic.
While the smackdown on Carrey’s ill-informed rant was swift (this one was my favourite), the damage will have been done.
The science is in on this topic but the message just isn’t getting out there. The voices of reason are all too often drowned out by the cries of those irrationally and ideologically opposed to vaccination, and children die as a result.
For all these reasons, Rebecca Maddern is to be congratulated for her great segment on last night’s Sunday Night.
This also gives you some idea of the scientific non-credentials of the anti-vax crowd.
Homeopathic treatment for whooping cough? Please. Your magic homeopathic water does nothing. How could it? After all, it’s just water and nothing else.
It’s a shame that nonsense wasn’t exposed for what it is, but maybe in the next segment. How about it Channel 7?
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