Tumblr Explains The Time an Anti-Vaxx Mom Switched Sides

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Eric Lund
Mar 17, 2020 2:00 PM EDT

Tumblr provides context to the story of a formerly anti-vaxx mom who changed her mind after realizing that she was wrong. It's wild that it has to come to such extreme cases to change someone's mind, but the idea that critical thinking and research as a skill is important, and that people can get better at it is kinda cool. For some eye opening info, Here's a Tumblr thread that provides a lot of missing information about the reality of the McDonald's hot coffee case, or the time Tumblr users got schooled on physics and car safety.

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    Text - S froody Anti-vaxx mom abandons movement – after all seven her of her kids get whooping cough TOM BOGGIONI 10 APR 2015 AT 16:00 ET Uploaded By PsychoFifi Ottawa Adrian Harewoed Kew Otana mother Tara ila cOC soreenshot funoftheday You don't say.
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    Text - timemachineyeah For the record, she actually abandoned the movement BEFORE they all got whooping cough, but abandoned it too late. There'd been a breakout of measles in her area that caused her to reassess, and she and her doctor had already drafted and started a catch-up vaccination schedule, but her kids caught whooping cough just before it could be started. Then she wrote a blog post for The Scientific Parent explaining how she and her husband had come to wrong decisions in the first p
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    Text - Honestly it was pretty brave of her to publicly admit she was wrong. She could have just quietly vaccinated her kids and not become a national news story, but instead she spoke out, even saying "I'm writing this from quarantine, the irony of which isn't lost on me." and also “I am not looking forward to any gloating or shame as this 'defection' from the antivaxx camp goes public, but, this isn't a popularity contest. Right now my family is living the consequences of misinformation and fea
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