I just read this Action Alert and pursuant to it I sent this note to AMC theaters:
Thank you for NOT running the anti vaccination add by the so called "Safeminds" organization. The mercury in flu shots is in a form that is not absorbed into human tissues, but is an important part of an anti-fungicide that keeps the flu vaccines safe. Meanwhile, a flu vaccine is an important preventative medical step everyone should take. The ads are based on unscientific and incorrect information. Thank you for pulling them from your theaters.
There are a number of different things you could do. Please do one.
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Rex
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Rex, I think my favorite part of that link is the bit where George Bernard Shaw is included in a list of doctors. Then there are all the "doctors" with their own products to sell in the place of vaccines and all the unsourced quotes that are well out of context.
In other words, you find this page impressive enough to go sharing it with your name attached to the comment?
Ooops. Sorry, Stephanie, the link was deleted under the "Nefarious Forces Staging Area" clause.
No worries. The question to Rex still stands, and he knows what he linked. :)
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