Vaccines and reason

Are there people out there, who consider themselves rationale, that took one look at the ebola crisis and thought,"there is no need to vaccinate my children"?

There is an entire continent that hopes for a vaccine for Ebola. What was unclear about this?

There is only one hellfire...

and it gets launched from 5 miles above the Earth's surface from

a machine. Clearly, hellfire is on the side of science.

Scott Adam's Outragism is the new outrage

Scott Adam's has a really good post about the manufactured outrage syndrome that is sweeping the world. 

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/109482303301/outragists-are-the-new-awful

People are getting very accustomed to the recognition and popularity that comes with becoming upset over nothing.  Perhaps it's a narcissism outbreak, perhaps it's a consequence of the new social media attention.  The fact is, when everyone is connected anyone can contact many and perpetuate all sorts of nonsense.  Even poorly written blogs.

My word for the same phenomenon was "emotionalism".  People hearing something that vaguely offends their sensibilities and then they turn off their thinking portion of brain function and launch right into emotional attack mode, spinning arguments, warping quotes, and most unfortunately manufacturing rage.