Y'all must have heard about that crazy hippie Marin mother with her measles parties, with Salon frothing at the mouth about the sheer idiocy? Except that nobody actually checked with her: it's all bullshit. Somebody offered the idea, she turned it down immediately, there have not been any known "measles parties."
Here's the SFGate link (although I'll admit the whole thing's still a little fishy--either the KQED reporter left out a key fact or the woman's dissembling. Still: no actual measles parties). http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea...
- walt crawford