By Erin K. Costello In a new Facebook post by Kate Teitje, aka Modern Alternative Mama (MAM), Kate reveals she is starting a new series which aims to dispel fears and myths surrounding many vaccine preventable diseases (VPD). The first of this series appears to be mumps. Keeping with usual Kate fashion, she gets much of it wrong or omits important facts in attempts to support her narrative rather than the facts. We briefly cover this below.
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By Erin K. Costello This isn't going to be a blog post. I needed a place to post these screen shots but didn't want them to get lost in our "screen shots" section. Below are almost 250 screen shots of anti-vaccine hate towards climate change activist, and remarkable human being, Greta Thunberg. I am breaking them up by post. Each gallery below is one post. These were all found in anti-vaccine groups and/or pages. By Erin K. Costello
By Erin K. Costello
By Erin K. Costello
Spotting anti-vaccine actors hoping to scam and exploit the movement. By Erin K. Costello We often come across stories in anti-vaccine groups that leave us feeling suspect after reading them. We try to look into each one of these stories but we don’t always have the time. Contrary to popular belief, we are not paid shills. We aren’t even paid bloggers. None of us at What’s The Harm and NO MAM have earned a cent doing what we do on these pages and this website. Most of us have real life jobs that have no connection to our online advocacy. And by jobs this includes stay at home moms/dads since that is the hardest job of all. Almost all of us who work also have kids, and some of us even go to school. Every one of us has at least one of the three things listed above. We all have our own reasons for advocating for vaccinations, but profit is not one of those reasons. Because of this aren't always able to investigate every story or claim we read about, or confirm every Go Fund Me (GFM) campaign. The fact that we all do this for free is something that makes this blog post even more interesting. Let me explain how I learned of a couple anti-vaccine shills and a bogus GFM. By Erin K. Costello I recently came across the post featured in the image below. As I started to write a Facebook page post to go with the redacted image, I found myself creating this elaborate comparison scenario that was becoming too long for a Facebook post. This is a common problem when pointing out stupid beliefs of the anti-vaccine movement since their idiocy knows no bounds. Leave it to anti-vaxxers to cause the allotted space of a Facebook post feel as restrictive as a 140 character Tweet. **Most will still understand much of this blog post without reading the featured image, though I do suggest reading the post in the image before reading the rest of this blog post. By Erin K. Costello Recently I have covered the anti-vaccine vitriol against those of us who advocate for vaccines, or against the Jewish community, against the medical community, and even aimed at those in government, but there is one more group of people who are more often victimized by anti-vaccine hate and discrimination than any other group of people, and that is autistic people. A post I came across from the Facebook page Future Horizons demonstrates their hate horrifically well. If You Think This Comment is Creepy and Harassing, Stay the Hell Away From YouTube Comments.5/30/2019 By Erin K. Costello Correction: The post discussed here in Kate's Facebook group by Kate was also made to her public Facebook profile. In a recent post to her Facebook group, Modern Alternative Mamas!, Kate Tietje, the Modern Alternative Mama, called attention to a “message” she received. The quotations are added there because that is the word Kate used in her post. It wasn’t a message though, it was a public comment left on a public post that Kate posted to her public Facebook page. The comment has been there since yesterday and Kate made her group post about the comment a few hours after the comment was made. It’s likely that Kate did this due to only a few people calling attention to the comment and offering Kate their undying support. The comment in question is still up and can be found here, though I am expecting Kate to remove it sometime soon or make the post private. I’ve included the screen shot below in case that should happen. Would you call this Facebook comment typical of obsessive stalking behavior? By Erin K. Costello I am venturing into new territory with this blog post. I feel I should be upfront and honest though, I am going to be throwing shade at a mother of a sick child. More specifically, the mother of a child with cancer. I am not happy to call this woman on her nonsense, but I can’t forget there is the life of a little boy at risk by her actions, or her in actions rather. This mother is trying to deny her child life saving chemotherapy treatments in favor of dandelions and CBD oil. She has been trying to make a name for herself in the anti-vaccine/anti-medicine community, so I can’t help but suspect this defiant attitude of hers is fueled more by her agenda and less by her child. |
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