Discussions among intelligent informed women, all. Scorn 'em or support them but just hear them 1st.

[LadyHawkAZ]

6. If it walks like a duck and looks like a duck

it's probably a quack. The gender of the quacker is irrelevant. This is not a feminist issue, it's an anti-science issue. Criticism of anti-vaxxers is not due to their gender, it's due to their buying into a lie that's been debunked by pretty much the entire medical community. From your last quote:

Members of the press never use that word when talking about autism, but trust me, a serious health problem with no known cause or cure that affects 2 percent of children really is a crisis.

We have a group of people who are determined to fly in the face of science and claim a cause for autism that science has found to be not only untrue but harmful. Trying to claim that no one's listening to them just because they're women is disingenuous, misleading, and not to put too fine a point on it, a lie- the very kind of thing that is harmful to the cause of gender equality.

Gormy, you're the host here and I'm not, but I really wish you would lock this shit.