Fuck you lady

Mayim Bialik would like you all to know that she supports vaccinations.

i would like to dispel the rumors about my stance on vaccines. i am not anti-vaccine. my children are vaccinated. there has been so much hysteria and anger about this issue and i hope this clears things up as far as my part.

Except Mayim doesn't seem to understand what a rumor is. She has stated publicly that they are a non vaccinating family. That's not a rumor, that's a statement she has made both in interviews and in the pages of her book.

But actually she would rather not talk about it. So why do you discuss it in interviews, in books, and sign up to represent antivaccination organizations? Oh, but you DO vaccinate, and all this talk is just rumors floating around the internet. OK. Convenient timing. It's also convenient that you get to be a celebrity, publicly endorse healthcare decisions for your children (and let's face it, other people's children too), that fly in the face of everything we have learned through science over the past couple hundred years, then tell everyone to shut up when they point out you're full of shit.

She also recommends, as someone who holds herself up as a PhD in science and a role model for women in STEM, a book that advocates for an alternative vaccination schedule. A book which was subject to no peer review and written by a pediatrician with no training in public health or immunology. Who publicly admitted that there was no science behind his recommendations. What sort of cognitive dissonance is required for those kinds of mental gymnastics?

Clearly, Mayim Bialik is, or was, antivaccine. There's no point in denying it. If she has truly changed her stance, which would be wonderful, why doesn't she pen a heartfelt blog or whatever about how she came around, saw the light, did some actual research, and got her children caught up? There's no shame in being wrong. Many people, who are much smarter than her, have gotten things wrong. Why dig her heels in now? If she wants to be an advocate for science, this is such an excellent opportunity to show how important it is to have a lack of ego. To learn.

Of course, if you just need to make a statement to keep your sponsors happy, a quick FB post denouncing rumors is really all you need to do.