Johann Schmidt, I presume.

....and there in lies the problem.

Why is there an article on /. about diets? I mean, really? Mountain Dew, Cheetos, pizza, nachos, doughnuts, and coffee; everything else is just moot for this crowd.

I would suggest that, once again, things mentioned as "government fraud" are actually that great free market taking advantage of a situation. The "government" doesn't market products as gluten-free, low-fat, or reduced fat, nor do they go around throwing extra water and various thickeners into foods.... private companies do. So while the government puts forth guidelines to help people based on the CURRENT best nutritional science, it's PRIVATE COMPANIES who do everything you're blaming the government for.

Tell you what though, that big nasty corrupt government also has guidelines for the limits of pesticides, arsenic, and all sorts of toxic substances found in your drinking water too. If you want to really impress on me how much you think our government is always wrong, please be my guest to start drinking water with massive amounts of those things in it, and get back to us in a month of two.

I can't tell if you're trying to be funny, or if you are actually as stupendously ignorant about science as you're post portrays you to be.... it's very hard to tell in writing. I generally try to give people the benefit of doubt, but i get the vibe you're not trying to be funny.

Science is based on observation and experimentation. What that means is, the more exacting observations we make, and the more fine tuned our experimentation, the more precise our knowledge becomes... that's pretty basic, 4th-6th grade level science. If you want something that once said never, ever changes, regardless of new information, then stick to religion.

Seriously.... for the level of paranoid delusional bullshit you've posted in this thread, you need to be sedated, medicated, and locked in a padded room in a straightjacket. What the fuck is wrong with you?

At the point people start using fallacies like you have, and simply showing their true colors as someone who hates being told what to do by anyone (similar to a petulant two year old), i can safely say my statement was wrong:

Clearly that should have read: Sadly, they've sorely underestimated the INCREDIBLE level of stupidity, INTENTIONAL OBSTINANCE, AN SHEER HEAD-UP-ASSERY involved.

If you don't understand why there's a program to compensate people who have negative reactions to vaccines, you shouldn't talk about it.... it makes you look stupid. Go use that brain you (might) have, and learn. Just to be clear though... if a child needs to go to a doctor, and the parent doesn't take them... yes, the child should be removed from the parent; not because i think government needs more power, but because the parent is intentionally failing to do THE BIGGEST FUCKING JOB of being a parent.... keeping their child safe and well. Those parents should also be arrested for child abuse.

Then again, Perry said he was wrong to mandate it, and passed a bill through legislation to let parents opt out.... pandering to conservatives and evangelicals (which is actually the point, stupid fucking politicians pandering to even stupider voters).

Unfortunately if the kids get sick, the parents aren't the ones to die in agony (although i can see if that were the case, childhood vaccination rates would be almost 100%).

I have an idea.... lets hire a bunch of doctors to use science to figure all that out. We can name them something like The Center for Disease Control.

Unless you are a doctor, or epidemiologist, what you're really saying is you want to argue that your uneducated opinion is as valid as centuries of medical knowledge. They have thought about the ramifications.. decades ago (and still do today). They've thought about what vaccines... decade ago (and still do today). The CDC isn't a drug company.. they don't make money by pushing drugs onto people; there job is to keep people alive, to prevent massive outbreaks, and to try to protect people from their own stupidity.

Sadly, they've sorely underestimated the level of stupidity involved.

The logic behind it was pretty simple. No company makes money on the vaccinations that are required (for the most part), and a few of those vaccinations are made/provided at a loss. Because there are only a few companies that make them, and because of the vaccines vital importance to society, they developed the program to compensate anyone who did have an adverse reaction in lieu of a handful of lawsuits driving those few companies out of business, thereby depriving society of a critical resource.

I am very much against government shielding corporations from legal actions, or being used as the muscle behind (bought) laws that strong-arm citizens.... but in this case, this type of program was needed. The only two options would be to nationalize production of vaccinations, or to let all these diseases decimate the human species into eventual extinction.

But that is part of the problem... really stupid people who think their ignorant, uneducated opinion is as valid as the accumulation of centuries of medical knowledge. You supposedly have a brain.. use it. Learn. Grow. Become a thinking person.

If your car breaks down, you take it to a mechanic; if you travel by airplane, you have a pilot fly the plane; if you get sick, you go to a doctor... not a mechanic, or pilot.... and certainly not a blonde brain-dead ex Playboy playmate who's biggest claim to fame is taking off her cloths so a bunch of horny guys can jerk off to pictures of her.

Not keeping up on even past events, i see:

http://www.lifenews.com/2011/0...

"However, pro-life advocates and conservatives reacted strongly to the mandate and said the only way young girls would get the disease is if they engaged in sexual activity — prompting a call for more promotion of abstinence education, which Perry favors, instead. After the outcry, Perry allowed a bill to become law that the Texas legislature approved to backtrack on the decision, making it so young girls are no longer required to get the vaccine."

Your pause in bashing "stupid fucking partisan idiots," which you mistake as bashing republicans (personally, i can see how those can easily be mistaken for each other), would have been good in ONE solitary instance prior to 4 years ago.... but because the "stupid fucking partisan idiot" caved in to a bunch of other "whiny stupid fucking idiots," your pause is no longer valid. Try to keep up on events.

Your comment only shows you've never understood what government and citizenship is. You want some authoritarian nightmare where government is only for a few people and not everyone.... you don't get that. Government and society is for everyone. You get some things you like, and other people get some things they like.

Here's one of the big differences between conservatives and liberals... liberals understand that for their entire lives, they've benefited from the investment in society that previous generations have made; conservatives seem to think the the world started yesterday, that they did it all by their lonesome, and they don't owe anyone for anything. The true thieves are those who don't want to make investments for future generations after using all the benefits that previous generations sacrificed for them... those are some very sick, greedy, self absorbed, and fundamentally morally challenged people.

Conservatives always seem to hate "social programs," but they always take advantage of them when they need them. It's too bad they don't seem to have the forethought to understand that if they had their way, those programs wouldn't even exist when they ended up needing them. Self-centered, shortsighted, and narcissistic is an ugly way to go through life.

Yeh, but not to worry, i'm sure a handful of the rabid conservative trolls will come along shortly and mod it down to nothing; censoring reality is their nature.