Anti-Vaxxer Says Vaccines Are Dangerous, Gets Shut Down By A Neuroscientist

The importance of vaccinating your children can’t be stressed enough. Especially nowadays, when the anti-vaxxer community is growing thanks to Illuminati-tier conspiracy theories that keep spreading like viruses.

Anti-vaxxers and people with at least an ounce of common sense simply screaming at each other won’t get us anywhere. What helps is arguing with a good dose of logic, as well as a dash of sass. When one anti-vaxxer showed his anger than an unvaccinated kid was kicked out of school in New York, people couldn’t help but reply. When another anti-vaxxer then exclaimed that vaccines supposedly have mercury and other dangerous materials in them, a woman on Twitter, who uses the handle such_A_frknlady and describes herself as a neuroscientist, shut the argument down with cold logic.

If you’re in the mood to read some more of Bored Panda’s posts about anti-vaxxers, here’s one about the most entertaining responses to anti-vaxxers. Here’s another about people trolling anti-vaxxers with memes. And a third one about how the internet delivered when an anti-vaxxer mom asked how to protect her 3-year-old from the measles outbreak.

One anti-vaxxer blamed lawmakers and ‘Big Pharma’ for a kid being ‘kicked out of school’ for not being vaccinated

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One Twitter user couldn’t help but make a joke

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Another anti-vaxxer alleged that vaccines have mercury in them…

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…causing the social media user who claims to have a PhD in neuroscience to hit back with logic

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According to anti-vaxxer mexico_maamii, everyone who vaccinates their children is ‘ignorant.’ But Twitter user such_A_frknlady, who in her bio says she’s Dr. Animoji Avi, a neuroscientist, said that every single kid vaccinated in the ‘last several decades’ would have been poisoned or killed if vaccines did, in fact, contain the incredibly dangerous materials that anti-vaxxers claim they do.

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Most social media users were supportive of Dr. Avi’s sassy comeback. However, one Reddit user questioned whether such_A_frknlady does, in fact, have a PhD, considering that she had previously used a Twitter nickname that would cause lots of outrage if we actually wrote it out in this post. Other Reddit users said that it doesn’t matter that a professor has a ‘funny social life,’ as long as she’s fighting anti-vaxxers online.

Across England, childhood vaccinations for 13 diseases have been falling year after year, a recent article from The Guardian warns. The United Kingdom saw a drop in MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) immunization, which led the country to lose its measles-free status. However, the British seem to be losing confidence in all vaccinations, not just the MMR jab.

Outbreaks are prevented when at least 95 percent of a country’s population is immunized. Unfortunately, in England, the rate of immunized children who are 24 months old dropped from 91.2 percent in 2017-2018 to only 90.3 percent in 2018-2019. This is the direct result of misinformation in the media and online.

Dear Pandas, what do you think of such_A_frknlady’s argument with the anti-vaxxer? What is the worst anti-vaxxer conspiracy that you’ve heard? What arguments would you use to explain to skeptics that vaccinations are an absolute must? Share your thoughts with us in the comments.