Somehow it never occurred to me that a major campaign issue for one of the national parties of the United States in 2024 would be general opposition to a triumph of modern medicine that saves something like 4 million lives worldwide every year and dramatically reduces childhood mortality.

i wish there were consequences for Andrew Wakefield beyond having his paper retracted and his medical license revoked. The disinformation he unleashed with that "vaccines cause autism" paper should count as a crime against humanity by now. That bastard is making $$$ still peddling his bullshit

Ooh they have their eye on that whole heliocentric heresy, too, you can bet.

at this point I wish they could all move to an unoccupied island somewhere not just because I don't want to share space with them, but because I truly want to see whether an Evil Dunning-Kruger society could survive, and for how long

Seems super “pro-life” doesn’t it?

Well, that's what we get for choosing to live in the sideways times. In unrelated news, I TOTALLY understand the transition from Ancient Rome to the Middle Ages now. No mystery there.

As a federally employed physician, I am not looking forward to apolitically navigating 2024

Clearly you were not raised by homeschoolers so allow me to pass you some intel: by 2021 just about everyone in the survivor community figured this was inevitable. Homeschooling is the anti-vax of child development and COVID was a mass recruiting event for both.

truly one of the most depressing developments of the last few years

My awakening to this were the people heckling doctors and nurses during covid - I could not believe my eyes - since then nothing further has surprised me

Considering the MAGAs are cool with measles outbreaks, homeschooling is probably for the best