Big media afraid of being blunt, again:

How to combat the anti-vaxxer message

They responded by saying they weren’t anti-vaccine, but they didn’t think they needed to move along on the schedule the medical community was recommending. Our time ran short and they left without a clear plan as to when they would catch their daughter up on her shots.

The parents of that toddler aren’t part of the “antivax” group waging a continuous war against progress and enlightenment.

Rather, these were what the medical community calls Vaccine Hesitant Parents (VHPs): a middle ground of caring, pragmatic parents who don’t reject vaccines outright, but worry about them. Some worry because of something they’ve heard from other parents or because they read an account of a vaccine-damaged child online. Some may be dizzy from one too many Google searches that land on confusing and contradictory figures on the value and safety of vaccines.

Fuck ‘em. Of course those parents are “anti-vax”. Just because they don’t post frothing idiocies on twitter doesn’t make then not anti-vax. What makes them anti-vax is that they don’t accept what medical science says about vaccines.

What CNN is doing is akin to saying old-earth creationists aren’t creationists because they are not YECs.

It’s just down to cowardice in not confronting people in their stupidity.