Natural Selection

I'm definitely not the first person to opine that the growth of our medical technology has somehow subverted natural selection. With our medications, people with formerly debilitating environmental adaptations (e.g. allergies, autoimmune disorders) have been able to live productive lives and pass their genes on to their offspring. If we have defeated natural selection, is humanity getting weaker? Not to fret: The internet and simple human stupidity have become our new barometer of environmental pressure.

We all know about Jenny McCarthy and her ilk using pseudoscience and superstition to increase the burden of preventable communicable disease on our society's children with their anti-vaccination religion. But apparently, there's a new trend coming out:

Parents are refusing Vitamin K shots for their newborns 

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/30/babies-suffer-bleeding-disorder-after-parents-refuse-shots-/2750023/

I refuse to link to a woman so irresponsible that she would advocate for opting out, so here's a blog from another doctor who is willing to show you how clueless these people are:

http://www.skepticalob.com/2013/08/i-didnt-manage-to-kill-my-first-baby-by-withholding-vitamin-k-maybe-i-can-kill-my-second.html

As long as people keep convincing themselves not to use the available technology, we'll have this problem whipped within a couple generations. Not the actual medical issues, mind you. Just the genetically based idiocy that causes these irrational beliefs.