Orac over at Repectful Insolence has an interesting piece about the mindset of the hard-core anti-vaccination crowd.

What it boils down to is similar to the title of this post. Regardless of the amount of data that are presented to these people, they will continue to cover their ears and scream Lalalalalalala! to whatever doesn't jibe with their world view.

Meanwhile, take a look at the sidebar to the right and checkout the Jenny McCarthy Body Count. The count presented is taken from actual CDC data amassed since the anti-vaccination folks swung int high gear after the blond dolt decided she was an epidemiologist with a PHd. from Google.

Those numbers represent preventable illnesses and deaths. As long as these people continue to spew their rhetoric, the count is only going to grow.