{"id":129444,"date":"2016-01-10T21:05:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T04:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/10\/oh-good-anti-vaxxers-are-becoming-anti-vitaminers.html"},"modified":"2016-01-10T21:05:12","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T04:05:12","slug":"oh-good-anti-vaxxers-are-becoming-anti-vitaminers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/10\/oh-good-anti-vaxxers-are-becoming-anti-vitaminers.html","title":{"rendered":"Oh, good: anti-vaxxers are becoming anti-vitaminers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because it&#39;s <i>obvious<\/i> that you can&#39;t trust Big Medicine and Big Science because Reasons! So if your doctor says your infant should get a shot of Vitamin K to prevent brain bleeding, <i>obviously<\/i> she&#39;s lying to you and you should <i>not<\/i> get Little Billy such a shot! And if you find an article on the Internet that breathlessly talks about Vitamin K shots causing leukemia (right next to the articles talking about how vaccines cause autism), then <i>obviously<\/i> it must be true!. Because shots are <i>unnatural<\/i> and make babies <i>cry<\/i> so <i>obviously<\/i> they must be evil and  contaminating Little Billy&#39;s Precious Bodily Fluids! And probably causing an imbalance of humours, too!<\/p>\n<p>\/snark<\/p>\n<p>[You can take it as a sign of how strongly I feel about this that I would put a picture of an injection needle on one of my posts, because I freaking <i>hate<\/i> needles. But I don&#39;t let that visceral and largely irrational fear stop me from doing what is medically necessary, for myself or my child, <i>duh.]<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/environment\/2014\/07\/vitamin-k-injection-infants-safety'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/ZumB0P0TseG_kRgAc_c8kOJqrVe9AadcOPRM5UQP54wqwHCKZcQITP5p8VZc4C-eVgRUSgDvQgnnIpX2yRi0Mzo=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/environment\/2014\/07\/vitamin-k-injection-infants-safety'>Babies are getting brain bleeds&mdash;are vaccine fears to blame?<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nSome parents are refusing vitamin K injections for their newborns. The consequences can be devastating.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/fsPhauDgHq8'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because it&#39;s obvious that you can&#39;t trust Big Medicine and Big Science because Reasons! So if your doctor says your infant should get a shot of Vitamin K to prevent brain bleeding, obviously she&#39;s lying to you and you should not get Little Billy such a shot! And if you find an article on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/10\/oh-good-anti-vaxxers-are-becoming-anti-vitaminers.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oh, good: anti-vaxxers are becoming anti-vitaminers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":138106,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/09\/everybody-gets-tetanus-shots-right-wrong.html","url_meta":{"origin":129444,"position":0},"title":"Everybody gets tetanus shots, right? 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