{"id":685,"date":"2013-06-16T00:31:46","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/?p=685"},"modified":"2013-06-16T00:31:46","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:31:46","slug":"buffy-the-vaccine-denialism-slayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/2013\/06\/16\/buffy-the-vaccine-denialism-slayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffy the Vaccine-Denialism Slayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i1-news.softpedia-static.com\/images\/news2\/Buffy-the-Vampire-Slayer-Returns-as-Animated-Series-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i1-news.softpedia-static.com\/images\/news2\/Buffy-the-Vampire-Slayer-Returns-as-Animated-Series-2.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a>Actress extraordinaire <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001264\/\">Sarah Michelle Geller<\/a>, most well-known to geeks around the world as <a href=\"http:\/\/buffy.wikia.com\/wiki\/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer_and_Angel\">Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/a>, is taking on a new foe: vaccine deniers. In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celebritybabyscoop.com\/2013\/06\/05\/michelle-definitely-second\">recent interview<\/a>, she express her support for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundsofpertussis.com\/\">Sounds of Pertussis<\/a> campaign to raise awareness of why vaccinations for whooping cough are crucial for both adults and children.<\/p>\n<p>Geller, a mother of two, had this to say about the standard schedule of vaccines:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>CBS: Did you vaccinate your kids with all the recommended childhood immunizations?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SMG: \u201cYes, I made the decision to vaccinate my children at a schedule that I agreed upon with my pediatrician. I can only speak in depth on the pertussis vaccine. And I can tell you that all of us have had the vaccine and none of us have had any symptoms related to anything.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Geller coming out and publicly agreeing with what all the scientific evidence shows (<a title=\"Another Vaccine Fallacy: Too Many, Too Soon!\" href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/2013\/06\/07\/another-vaccine-fallacy-too-many-too-soon\/\">that standard vaccine schedules are safe and effective<\/a>) is absolutely fantastic. Too often in the area of health, celebrities make headlines for denying scientific consensus and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jennymccarthybodycount.com\/Anti-Vaccine_Body_Count\/Home.html\">recommending dangerous things like not vaccinating children<\/a>. I hope that Geller and other like-minded celebrities will continue to speak up and support public health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress extraordinaire Sarah Michelle Geller, most well-known to geeks around the world as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is taking on a new foe: vaccine deniers. In a recent interview, she express her support for the Sounds of Pertussis campaign to raise awareness of why vaccinations for whooping cough are crucial for both adults and children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,100,14],"tags":[10,148,74],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism-2","category-health","category-skepticism","tag-children","tag-medicine-2","tag-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}