Anti-Vaccination

Anti-vaxers in America go back 300 years

“Recently, two different vaccine refusal disputes led to two different outcomes.” - BJC

“Some people ignore the overwhelming evidence and still believe the connection [to autism] exist because it was given credence in 1998 by the publication of a fraudulent research paper in the British medical journal The Lancet.

“People who argue in favor of vaccines are making rational arguments to people who have already proven themselves not to be moved by reason.” - Washington Examiner

“The use of fetal cell lines from the 1960s is another sticking point in the vaccine debate.” - Christianity Today

“[S]everal outbreaks over the past few years have begun in religious communities with poor vaccination rates. The current measles outbreak in New York, for example, has been linked to vaccine refusal among ultra-Orthodox Jewish families in Rockland County. Prior to that, an unvaccinated Ohio Amish community saw a massive measles outbreak in 2014.

“…earlier that day, a doctor at a naturopathic clinic in Chandler, Arizona, recommended the mother take her two-year-old son—who had a temperature of 100 degrees and is unvaccinated—to Banner Cardon Children’s Hospital emergency room in Mesa, Arizona.” - Intellectual Takeout