How One Scientist Is Fighting Anti-Vaxxers and Their Online Harassment Campaigns

https://www.newsweek.com/david-robert-grimes-fighting-anti-vax-online-harassment-campaigns-1356709

So… We need more dead babies because that’s the only thing that will change people’s minds? Is a six-year-old with tetanus and an $800,000 bill enough?

«But what really changed things was a brilliant and articulate young lady called Laura Brennan, who had been diagnosed with incurable cervical cancer. She came to HSE and offered to share her story, so that other women wouldn’t have to go through what she had endured. So, the campaign that we launched to counter this put her at the forefront. We hit lows of 51.2 percent HPV coverage but now we’re back up to the high 70s, whereas Japan is still in the doldrums and so is Denmark. People connect to the emotive first. What we needed to do was remind them what this vaccine was for, what it was actually doing.»

On Paul Manafort’s light sentence

https://twitter.com/JohnFPfaff/status/1103869002135199744?s=17

John Pfaff (@JohnFPfaff) Tweeted:

Everyone is getting this wrong tonight. At least everyone who wants to end mass incarceration.

The framing here needs to be: the sentence Manafort received shows JUST HOW OVERLY HIGH are the sentences we impose on poor and minority defendants.

Normalize the LOW, not the HIGH. https://t.co/DIcGGDHLEr

Bishop Will Willimon on why no plan can unite United Methodists – Religion News Service

https://religionnews.com/2019/02/26/bishop-will-willimon-on-why-no-plan-can-unite-united-methodists/

«We spent time yesterday [at #gc2019] openly discussing, “Now, how much do we have to pay to have to leave? Is a third of a property assessment OK?” It was just weird hearing us talk that way. That’s not the way we’ve talked previously. If you talk that way, it means the debate is almost moot.»