We’ve been talking about vaccines almost non-stop
recently. We would rather not have to, but it seems as if the tide is now
turning—in the right direction. Yesterday, two California state senators, Dr. Richard
Pan, a pediatrician, and Ben Allen announced that they were proposing (long
overdue) legislation that would eliminate the “personal beliefs” exemption that
now allows parents to bypass immunization of their kids because they feel like
it.
A special shoutout goes to Dennis Romero, who wrote in
LA Weekly that health officials are putting much of the blame for the measles
outbreak on “parents who have not immunized their children as a result of
beliefs in debunked research, touted by actress McCarthy and other Hollywood
idiots, that tied vaccinations to autism.”
“Amen,” says ACSH’s Dr. Josh Bloom. “It is way past time
that we stopped dancing around this issue. I’m sure that the anti-vaxxers and
conspiracy nut jobs will be screaming their granola heads off, so I offer them
some words of ‘comfort’—too damn bad.”….. Read More......
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