Countering Anti-Vaccination Stupidity
I saw this on Reddit today and it struck me as a great idea. So I thought I’d share it. Health care professionals in Australia are talking about a coming epidemic of preventable diseases – like polio and measles – which kill and maim children (and unvaccinated adults). It’s all because a bunch of half-wits think that vaccinations are dangerous. Well, they are, in a vanishingly tiny proportion of cases, but the diseases they prevent are deadly and destroy the lives of a huge proportion of the people who contract them. You would have to be a complete idiot to risk the lives of your children and everyone else’s children by not vaccinating on the basis of an infinitesimal risk compared to the massive risk that diseases like polio pose.
Incredibly, there are maniacs at loose out there who are actively promoting their discredited and, as far as anyone rational can see, purely superstitious belief that vaccination is dangerous. They have persuaded so many feeble-minded people to their irrational beliefs, that the incidence of preventable disease is rapidly rising and children are now being killed and maimed unnecessarily. These irresponsible, dangerous people and their organisations have become so popular that search engines rank their anti-vaccine, anti-science websites up there with proper scientific and medical advice about vaccination. That’s where this post on Reddit comes in.
Finally, the Government is getting serious about squashing the misleadingly named Australian Vaccination Network. The problem is, their nutty claims should never have been tolerated by the media in the first place.
Sadly, when you type in “Australia vaccination” into Google, the Anti-Vaxers some up as result number two, meaning that people get exposed to their harmful anti-science, and might end up putting their kids (and your kids) in danger.
Want to help stop these idiots from being so prominent in searches? Do you own any websites? If so, here’s what you can do:
/1/ Write a short article about vaccination on your website.
/2/ Create 1 – 2 links using the words “vaccinate“, “vaccination” or “Australian vaccination” as the link words, and link them to these reputable vaccination sites:
http://www.vaccination.org.au/
http://www.immunise.health.gov.au/
http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bh...
This will help put these websites above the AVN website in google search results.
/3/ Use the keywords ‘Australian Vaccination Network‘ to hyperlink to the following website: http://stopavn.com/ [like I just did here]. This will help make sure that people who search for the AVN see as the first search results a site that discredits them.
If you do this, you can have a direct impact on vaccination in Australia. So, help out – and please, share this message! Note – I am not associated with any anti-vaccination group – just an Australian wanting to do my part.
