Late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel sent a message to proponents of the anti-vaccine movement through the use of real doctors appearing in his own public service announcement uploaded to YouTube Friday evening.
Introducing the PSA, Kimmel addressed those parents, particularly the ones he has witnessed around Los Angeles, who are more afraid of gluten than smallpox and thus measles is a problem again. Helping that along, he said, is the fact that 20 percent of public school students in Los Angeles are not vaccinated.
Kimmel admitted that a talk show host should not be one's source of medical information but suggested maybe a doctor should be:
I know if you're one of these anti-vaccine people, you probably aren't going to take medical advice from a talk show host, and I don't expect you to. I wouldn't either. But I would expect you to take medical advice from almost every doctor in the world.
Kimmel humorously suggested that doctors don't receive their medical degrees from their Facebook friends or high-profile celebrities, but rather from actual medical schools "where they studied all sorts of amazing things like how to magically prevent children from contracting horrible diseases by giving them a little shot."
Yes, that same shot like so many use to inject Botox into their faces, Kimmel joked.
Finally, Kimmel made the ludicrous suggestion that if those anti-vaxxers who "know more than doctors" ever find themselves in the need of suturing for a head wound, to locate a hotel sewing kit and take care of it themselves.
The doctors in the PSA included Dr. Robert Huizenga, best know for his presence on NBC's weight-loss competition hit, The Biggest Loser. Huizenga and the other doctors loosened up and let their own frustrations against anti-vaxxers flow begging parents, "Get your g** d*** kids vaccinated!"
An explanation on the measles virus and vaccinations can be viewed below:




