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Word on the Street: Anti-vaccination summit.

Q: SFU held a controversial anti-vaccination conference last week. Thoughts?

WEB-WOTS-Attentionseekers

Anti-Vaccine Movement

Room temperature IQs 

“HEY. VACCINES ARE BAD. HEY, HEY, HEY. COM’ON. LOOK AT ME. LOOK AT WHAT I’M DOING. OOooOoH SCARY AUTISM. AWW HOW COME YOU’RE NOT LOOKING?”

 

 

WEB-WOTS-JonasSalk Jonas Salk

Poli-owned

“Well I guess I spent my career injecting people with cow puss for nothing then. Enjoy your leg braces.“

 

 

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 Shirley Chapman

2nd grader

“I don’t know what Human Pa-ba-loma[sic] virus is, but I bet it’s better than shots!”

 

 

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Gregory Barnett

Man in tin foil hat

“Anti-vaccination? That’s the single stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.“

 

 

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Rubella

Viral Vector

“I completely agree, vaccination is untested, unreliable and unsafe. We should all just go back to the time-tested treatment of licking doorknobs.“

 

By Gary Lim

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