In America, climate science deniers have recently been joined by anti-vaccine, medicine deniers. If there is a common thread binding them together in ignorance, it is the idea that their unsubstantiated beliefs are somehow more valid than well-researched facts and hard-won advancements in our knowledge of how the universe works.
Both groups also fail to recognize that those beliefs have been created, nurtured, and spoon-fed to them by self-serving "leaders" pushing a political agenda that does not include helping their followers but which fleeces them as the sheep they are.
Consider the following:
One Tweet Perfectly Sums Up the Problem With How Americans Talk About Epidemics
A Nigerian satirist is using the U.S. measles outbreak to remind Americans of its overreaction to the West African Ebola epidemic, during which politicians like New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie put nurses who had tested negative for the virus in quarantine and right-leaning publications like the National Review called for a travel ban on citizens of countries gripped by the epidemic.
Elnathan John, a novelist and lawyer, had a brilliant public health proposal in response to the outbreak:
Our thoughts are also with the measles-ravaged country America. I hope we are screening them before they come to Africa.
Elnathan John @elnathan Link to Source
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