VaccinateGate

Anti-vaxxers say they'll keep their kids home if California eliminates personal belief exemptions.

Vaccine exemption: California SB277 opponents vow to pull kids from school if bill passes - San Jose Mercury News

I am reminded of Sandy Alderson's line after umpires tendered mass resignations: "That's either a threat to be ignored or an offer to be accepted."

 

Maybe they should move to Tinfoil Hat, Indiana.

 

Is that near Eerie?

 

Another one for Creosote:

Study rules out link between autism, MMR vaccine even in at-risk kids | The Kansas City Star

 

Science!

Parents who themselves on being "independent thinkers" don't get their kids vaccinated out of fear of social stigmatization:

In other words, the desire to "fit in" with a group of self-defined free-thinkers in fact leads to a kind of groupthink, in which dissent is effectively silenced.

http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/no-to-vaccination-a-cultural-explanation

More:

San Diego State University anthropologist Elisa Sobo spent time with a community of parents whose children attended a California Waldorf School. It's part of a large, international network of alternative schools that emphasize independent thinking and creative expression.

These schools are often criticized for having high rates of non-immunized children, and that was clearly true of the campus Sobo visited: Just over half of the parents filed "personal belief exemptions" indicating their child was un- or under-vaccinated.

Tellingly, she found the percentage of kids who are vaccinated goes down the longer they have been at the school. This suggests that, while parents who choose such schools may be skeptical of vaccines, there's something about the culture of the institution that bolsters this skepticism and effectively discourages the otherwise-common practice.

That's exactly what Sabo found when she interviewed 24 parents and conducted a focus group with a dozen of them. She discovered they were "highly educated, and took seriously their perceived responsibility for child health."

 

They got to him. And the cover-up begins!

Anti-Vaccine Doctor Jeff Bradstreet Dead in Apparent Suicide - NBC News

 

"LIVE FREE OR DIE!"

 

Isn't California considering a law that revamps the personal belief exemption? The exemption is only applicable if ok'd by a doctor.

Yep.

California vaccine bill would ban belief exemptions - CNN.com

 

Should we expect that assclown to be able to spell mandatory?

 

Is that fascist in the Hilter, Mussolini or Dr. Strangelove sense?