Barry Schwartz 🫖
I am sick of "science based medicine" and its failure to get people to use measles vaccines. What they do is say "It is science. We are scientists. Obey!" This is more and more the approach of our "science" community, as our intellectual culture degenerates. And of course there is backlash.
Measles vaccine can be explained by COMMON SENSE. But only if you understand natural selection, which our "science" hashtaggers usually do not. They think it works like evolution in STTNG.
Barry Schwartz 🫖
Contrary to common myth, the MMR vaccine is not a cocktail of three viruses. It is a cocktail of no viruses. The viruses are inactivated. Thus, the child or adult receiving the vaccine will catch none of the diseases. They will merely, hopefully, become immune to them. Their immune systems will be strengthened—perhaps that's why the site of the shot gets sore, etc. It is an immune reaction.
Barry Schwartz 🫖
The first thing, though, to point out about measles, is something oddly not widely mentioned. MEASLES DESTROYS A KID'S IMMUNE SYSTEM. So, instead of strengthening your kid's immune system by letting them catch measles, you are setting them back to square one.
It is not an ongoing destruction, like AIDS. But it is not what you thought was going on. You are NOT strengthening your kid's immune system.
Barry Schwartz 🫖
Fortunately evolving into "energy beings" as in Star Trek and 2001: A Space Odyssey is an extremely stupid idea. And it has nothing to do with natural selection. Science fiction, including "hard" SF such as Ben Bova, usually rejects Darwin. Life comes about merely because there is a space for it to fill. That is, for a "final cause" (Aristotle's "telos"). Science fiction writers are unwitting contributors to measles misinformation.
Natural selection is easy to understand.
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