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jazzmasterson for this:
Guy with poor webdesign skills seeks 2-6 women to have 2-15 children with him. "The preferred situation tends towards the higher numbers." (Although later on the site: "I would like to have 17 children. Why 17? I don't know. It just seems like a good number to have. I didn't say this earlier in the web-site because I didn't want to scare you away right off the bat.")
Good job of THAT.
# When the children reach 18 years of age, I would like for each of them to have 2 children with a mate selected by me.
And here's the page that REALLY pissed me off:
First. I insist that corrective lens for nearsightedness not be put on any of my children (before adulthood). I believe that there is some research evidence showing that if corrective lens are never used for this condition, that the degree to which the condition will develop will be minimized and that the vision may improve over the long-term.
So, the guy's willing to make decisions that significantly impact the lives of his kids in the basis of stuff he thinks he's heard, without even looking it up? I'll come back to the nearsightedness stuff later, but worse lies just ahead:
I don't want my children vaccinated against the standard childhood diseases. Against serious diseases, yes, but not against things like measles, mumps, chickenpox, etc.
Soapbox mode:
I would like to personally sterilise (preferably with red-hot irons) each and every asshole who refuses to have their children vaccinated against measles because it's "not a serious disease". Before immunisation was introduced, measles killed around 450 children a year in the USA alone.
National immunisation campaigns stomped on measles to the point where it was no longer endemic in the US, with most cases imported from outside the USA. In recent years, immunisation rates have been slipping (thanks largely to a scare campaign about possible risk of autism from MMR vaccination - a risk which, even if it's all people say, is a couple of orders of magnitude lower than the risk from measles itself). Result: outbreaks of measles are on the rise again. Non-immunised kids aren't just a danger to themselves - because they provide a vector for the disease, they also present a danger to those who genuinely can't be vaccinated for whatever reason, and to those for who the vaccine didn't take.
So people like this guy aren't just taking chances with their own kids' lives, they're taking chances with ours too. And all because they can't be bothered to ask why doctors take immunisation so seriously. Gaah.
( On nearsightedness. )
jazzmasterson for this:Guy with poor webdesign skills seeks 2-6 women to have 2-15 children with him. "The preferred situation tends towards the higher numbers." (Although later on the site: "I would like to have 17 children. Why 17? I don't know. It just seems like a good number to have. I didn't say this earlier in the web-site because I didn't want to scare you away right off the bat.")
Good job of THAT.
# When the children reach 18 years of age, I would like for each of them to have 2 children with a mate selected by me.
And here's the page that REALLY pissed me off:
First. I insist that corrective lens for nearsightedness not be put on any of my children (before adulthood). I believe that there is some research evidence showing that if corrective lens are never used for this condition, that the degree to which the condition will develop will be minimized and that the vision may improve over the long-term.
So, the guy's willing to make decisions that significantly impact the lives of his kids in the basis of stuff he thinks he's heard, without even looking it up? I'll come back to the nearsightedness stuff later, but worse lies just ahead:
I don't want my children vaccinated against the standard childhood diseases. Against serious diseases, yes, but not against things like measles, mumps, chickenpox, etc.
Soapbox mode:
I would like to personally sterilise (preferably with red-hot irons) each and every asshole who refuses to have their children vaccinated against measles because it's "not a serious disease". Before immunisation was introduced, measles killed around 450 children a year in the USA alone.
National immunisation campaigns stomped on measles to the point where it was no longer endemic in the US, with most cases imported from outside the USA. In recent years, immunisation rates have been slipping (thanks largely to a scare campaign about possible risk of autism from MMR vaccination - a risk which, even if it's all people say, is a couple of orders of magnitude lower than the risk from measles itself). Result: outbreaks of measles are on the rise again. Non-immunised kids aren't just a danger to themselves - because they provide a vector for the disease, they also present a danger to those who genuinely can't be vaccinated for whatever reason, and to those for who the vaccine didn't take.
So people like this guy aren't just taking chances with their own kids' lives, they're taking chances with ours too. And all because they can't be bothered to ask why doctors take immunisation so seriously. Gaah.
( On nearsightedness. )
