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Whether or not to vaccinate your children has continued to be a hot button argument across discussion platforms. Famous make-up and tattoo artist Kat Von D got in hot water recently for posting on Instagram that her unborn baby would not be vaccinated.

While substantial research shows vaccines are safe and vital in disease prevention, refusal of childhood vaccines at the doctor is on the rise. It could be argued that having these famous allies has emboldened anti-vaxxer groups, whatever the reason never shy away from sharing their opinions online. When science isn't on your side it can make these arguments tricky, but as you’ll see in these examples that doesn't stop them from trying. Some people tried to embellish their medical background, while others could benefit from a class in logic.

Bored Panda shares some of the best anti-vaxxer fails below, to show you better have your proof together before coming to the internet. (Facebook cover image: MangoStar Studio l Cover image: Andriano Cz)

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Saw This On Murdered By Words And Thought It Belonged Here

Saw This On Murdered By Words And Thought It Belonged Here

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John Doe
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

nicely explained. small correction: Sodium and Chlorine ratio is about 40:60 in salt

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Anti-Vaxxers Edgy Meme Didn't Go Quite As Planned...

Anti-Vaxxers Edgy Meme Didn't Go Quite As Planned...

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Anti-Vaxxer Gets Murdered With His Own Logic

Anti-Vaxxer Gets Murdered With His Own Logic

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Facebook Making Memes Unintentionally

Facebook Making Memes Unintentionally

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Phil Shotton
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Pretty sure the plague hasn't disappeared either - https://www.popsci.com/can-still-get-bubonic-plague-symptoms

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Anti Vaxxers

Anti Vaxxers

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Sunzilla
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OMG! I'm not vaccinated against small pox! They said it wasn't necessary because the virus was eradicated... Now it's coming back??!! So now I'm going to die because some people are stupid... Great.

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Anti-Vaxxer Logic

Anti-Vaxxer Logic

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Zanthe
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Do people don't understand we have dangerous diseases that can't be obliterated by our immune system alone because a) those diseases are new b) therefore our immune system isn't familiar with them and can't fight on its own?!

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#8

Winning Gold In The Stupidity Olympics

Winning Gold In The Stupidity Olympics

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Rosie Hamilton
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lying about the reason your daughter died to back up your baseless argument? Wow.

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#9

That Anti-Vax Epidemiologist...

That Anti-Vax Epidemiologist...

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Woman Claims To Be Pediatrician With Vast Knowledge Of Vaccines, Except She's Not

Woman Claims To Be Pediatrician With Vast Knowledge Of Vaccines, Except She's Not

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Healthcare Worker Refuses Vaccine. Gets Fired

Healthcare Worker Refuses Vaccine. Gets Fired

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“... Pumped With Aluminum Solfrate And Aborted Baby Parts And Eagle Brains...”

“... Pumped With Aluminum Solfrate And Aborted Baby Parts And Eagle Brains...”

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Tracy Leonard
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow. I wish when people are trying to sound more intelligent and learned that all the doctors, scientists and biologists, that they would learn to spell and at least take a stab at punctuation. They'd still sound ignorant, but at least it wouldn't be so painful to read their arguments.

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Wife Found This At The Doctors Office Last Week. Looks Like It Fits Here

Wife Found This At The Doctors Office Last Week. Looks Like It Fits Here

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Crochet lady
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My doctor has a Facebook page, it has been fun over the years watching her eviscerate anti-vaxxers and anti-flu shot proponents with facts and logic. Some idiot came at her with the "for profit" argument about the flu shots and she gave a very detailed, itemized list of her expenses regarding flu shots and explained how she not only doesn't make a profit, some years takes a huge loss and made him look like a total dolt. She's awesome!

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Before Vaccines, Kids Never Had Diabetes

Before Vaccines, Kids Never Had Diabetes

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now doesn't this show that anti-vaxxers are just 'not into it' and keep looking for stuff that fit even before they're sucked into this vertigo of false facts and conspiracies?

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Guacharaco
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Before vaccines, more kids were dying than after them...fact.

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Magpie
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Possibly there is part of that translation missing, sweet urine was also described.

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Virág Papp
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm a type 1 diabetic and I got the disease at the age of 4 when my immune system couldn't cope with a really really bad flu. It basically ate everything that was inside of my pancreas. I did happen to also get a vaccine against that particular flu which happened to kill a bunch of people that year. I had an anti-vaxx guy in a Diabetes group literally harass me when the topic of "How did you get your diabetes" came up because he insisted that my diabetes is due to the vaccines. No sir. If I didn't get those vaccines I would've probably died. I'm lucky I got away with an autoimmune disease. I had to block the guy.

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Abby Rexroth
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Here's a bit of useless knowledge; Before "diabetes" was coined the medical personnel of the past knew of a disease that the sufferer had sweet smelling urine. They determined someone had this condition by putting the patient's urine in a pan and watched to see if ant's were attacked.

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Cindy VanLerberg
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Before reliable diabetes treatment, children had diabetes 1, and died before diagnosis, and had they lived, it would have been in misery.

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Kiersten Carr
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tangential remark, but it is so cool that we have those Egyptian records. :D

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Sockpuppies11
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Um... pardon me if I'm wrong, but isn't type 1 diabetes very rarely contracted later on in life? I thought it was more commonly born with.

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Taki
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Type 1 is a genetic disease and the way you live has nothing to do with it. If it runs in the family you're more likely to get it but if and when it appears is completely random.

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criminalgirl
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What the absolute F*ck are you asking on here for? Do you think this is a medical forum for experts - although some folk on here think they are!

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#17

Love The Guy In Red

Love The Guy In Red

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Vaxxer Says Mice Study Shows Autism In Vaccines

Vaxxer Says Mice Study Shows Autism In Vaccines

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am so sick of the whole 'vaccines cause autism' thing! I have a child with autism, it had nothing to do with her vaccines.

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Let Me Explain How Nothing Is Ever A Vaccine Preventable Disease... Through My Psychic Connection With The Universe

Let Me Explain How Nothing Is Ever A Vaccine Preventable Disease... Through My Psychic Connection With The Universe

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh my. They probably didn't catch it and die from it because all the sane people who are vaccinated massively reduced everyone's odds of catching it. How can these people not see that, if we all gave up vaccines, these diseases would re-establish over time?!

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Anti-Vaxxers Aren't Doing Their Research

Anti-Vaxxers Aren't Doing Their Research

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Strictly speaking, Washington had his troops variolated - innoculated with a less deadly form of the smallpox virus, variola major. Soon after Washington's innoculation process Edward Jenner worked out that inoculation with the much more harmless vaccinia virus (commonly known at the time as copox) gave cross-protection with smallpox, and instituted the practice of vaccination. Washington's innoculation, whilst completely successful, was more potentially more dangerous, but it certainly helped to establish the principle of protection by innoculation. And finally - antivaccination is a totally borked notion...

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Told My Story As The Child Of An Antivaxxer. This Mother Felt The Need To Defend Herself With A Lot Of Antivax Logic

Told My Story As The Child Of An Antivaxxer. This Mother Felt The Need To Defend Herself With A Lot Of Antivax Logic

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Tracy Leonard
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

MABYE the doctor's job of 'proving to her' what's in the shot would be daunting.

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Anti Vaxxers Logic

Anti Vaxxers Logic

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm confused by this one. What does gender have to do with it... or the gun epidemic for that matter? Way off message.

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