GoFundMe Bans Anti-Vaxxers Who Raise Money to Spread Misinformation
It&#x27;s weird how much the anti-vaxxers have become the whipping boys of the current US.  Is it because they&#x27;ve got both the smell of dirty hippies and also anti-science religious conservatives and also annoying soccer moms so everyone can love to hate them?<p>Not giving your kid vaccinations is stupid.  But on the scale of &quot;ways you can mess up your kid,&quot; it&#x27;s pretty mild.  In terms of the amount of harm that non-vaccinated kids do to everyone else, it&#x27;s extremely near zero.  Almost certainly, if you drive a car more than a few times a year, you&#x27;re endangering those around you more than any anti-vaxxer is.<p>And if you actually want to convince anti-vaxxers to change their ways, this is clearly not the right way to do it.  Pouring hate on people feels (scarily) good in a lot of ways, but it doesn&#x27;t change the minds of the people you&#x27;re demonizing.  Is there any clearer demonstration of this than the complete persistence of anti-vaxxing sentiment in the face of steadily increasing screams of protest over the last 5 years?