Vaccines are important . Very important .
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So we were surprised to hear that American Airlines is design to feature an audience with Meryl Dorey — a notorious anti - vaccination booster known for serve outdemonstrably false claimsabout vaccines and the disease they help prevent — in the air hose ’s inflight cartridge and inflight television receiver program .
But we were flat - out astonished to learn thatthe abbreviated interviewfeatures precisely ZERO input or information from someone who could speak to the veracity of Dorey ’s statement — someone like , say , an actual doctor . In fact , the brusk , three - moment conversation does n’t offer any counter - information whatsoever . And that ’s a problem , especially when all signs indicate thatantivaccination counsellor like Dorey are awry .
To put it bluntly : American Airlines has offer Dorey with an opportunity to rabbit on lies , unchallenged and ungoverned , about inoculation .
As Bad Astronomy ’s Phil Plait points out : “ the power to show Meryl Dorey ’s claims to be completely incorrect is a Google hunting away , ” but those looking for a good overview of the grievous claim typically delivered by Dorey would do well to check outthis stake , also by Plait , which provides lashings of relevant contact ; orthis mail service — by Liz Ditz at I Speak of Dreams — who conveniently expose Dorey ’s interview point - by - point .
A postulation has already spring up , asking that American Airlines not go the audience . The petition get down :
American Airlines is planning to run confute and grave anti - vaccination propaganda from The Australian Vaccination connection ( AVN ) , via it ’s in - flight “ Executive Report ” media and “ American Way ” magazine , from July to August .
Citingfraudulent research , the material contains claims that vaccine make autism , a false claim that whooping cough inoculation “ is not operate ” having cause “ a much more deadly disease ” , and incorrectly suggests this is already happening with measles , epidemic parotitis and potentially other diseases . Passengers are then directed to the AVN website .
That American Airlines would provide someone like Dorey an chance to pay lip service to an anti - vaccination agenda may not be condemnable in and of itself — but that they would do so without presenting even a shred of well - document buffet - evidence is beyond irresponsible .
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