The most deadly words said, “Well, that isn’t the way I learned it.” Followed usually by, “that’s not what I believe, so how can it be true?”

Evidence, why the hell don’t we read it and incorporate it into our practice or why do we out of hand dismiss it? Do we really dress a wound the same way Florence did, with the same material? Hell no, although I am not so sure that there aren’t a few providers out there that are so set in their ways and “believe” in the old “tried and true”; that they will ignore the data that says that this method is better than all of those, because they refuse to look at and practice based on the evidence of what actually works.

The idea that you believe something better when it has proven not to be is not scientific its ignorance. Failing to embrace the evidence places providers and the patient at risk.

Let’s drift over to California, where there is a reasonably high bar for being excluded from getting vaccines. Meaning they passed a law and all to require vaccines and to eliminate exceptions. This came from an incident at Disneyland where a child infected with the measles exposed a great deal of the parks to that disease. So the government did what they are supposed to do and stepped in to regulate this.

Look a good deal of states seem to have no problem regulating a woman’s body, why are we so skittish to tell people they should have vaccines. In fact, when we control a woman’s body, aren’t we trying to save the unborn kid? So why do we not care if they get sick…I guess I don’t understand the crap logic here, maybe too little sleep.

Mother Jones reports that there is a “whole cottage industry of doctors helping parents skip their kid’s vaccines” You can see the article here.

But while the number of personal-belief exemptions has plummeted, medical exemptions—which require the signature of a licensed physician—have risen. Writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association in September, researchers found that over the last two school years, the rate of permanent medical exemptions for kindergartners tripled. The rate, which had hovered around 0.15 percent for nearly two decades, is now 0.51 percent.

The scariest part is this bit right here:

Fueling this spike in medical exemptions is an industry of doctors willing—and sometimes eager—to flout the recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the name of “parent choice.” Led by Orange County pediatrician Bob Sears, author of the influential The Vaccine Book and son of pediatrician and attachment parenting guru Bill Sears, many physicians are wary of the CDC’s vaccination schedule, believing that giving kids too many vaccines at once may be dangerous. (In 2013, the Institute of Medicine found no evidence that the schedule was unsafe.) The doctors are supported by a movement of anti-vaccine parents, many of whom believe the MMR vaccine causes autism. That view is rooted in a 1998 paper that was later retracted by The Lancet and declared “an elaborate fraud” by the British Medical Journal.

But the damage has been done. In 2015, soon after SB 277 was passed, a California-based nonprofit popped up called Physicians for Informed Consent (PIC). A coalition of about 200 doctors, scientists, and attorneys who vehemently oppose mandatory vaccine laws, it boasts Sears as a founding member. Meanwhile, Sears is currently facing charges of gross negligence from California’s medical board. The board has alleged that when granting a medical exemption for a two-year-old, Sears failed to obtain the patient’s medical history and other necessary information. Depending on which way the board rules, Sears could have his license revoked. (Sears declined to comment on his case.)

Ok, Jesus rollerblading Christ! There is an overwhelming amount of evidence, and yet we choose to ignore it based on exactly what? A belief that something is true even though it lacks no evidence and in this case was disproved as a hoax. We have traveled down this road before dear reader so I will not bore you with that opinion. However, this sounds a lot like, oh there are so many better ways to treat a wound, but we are just going to dry bandage it with rags and hope it heals and if not we will just saw it off. It used to be that way, and then we found evidence that there was a better way to treat a wound that actually caused it to heal. That is what medicine does, it looks at itself and analyzes procedures and tests them to continue to improve quality.

We don’t need your “belief” unless you are going to create a hypothesis and prove it. If you are not in medicine, please don’t magically think there is a procedure that can fix shit. Think ectopic pregnancies. There is no way to place the egg somewhere else, and the speculation by the untrained is annoying. Under no means is a transplant of this type even possible. When you legislate, do it from the standpoint of what you know and leave the magical thinking for Sunday. Vaccines are an easy clear problem/solution. Preventing abortions is actually solved by proper family planning, which in many cases is being abolished with these ridiculous laws.

Oh well, enough vitriol for a day. Vaccinate your kids…