Vaccine Proponents Receive Death Threats … Again

By Nina Shapiro Forbes In 2008, Dr. Paul Offit released a book called “Autism’s False Profits,” which focused on the safety of vaccines and disproved any association with or relationship of vaccine use to the incidence of autism. Dr. Offit is a prolific author and speaker, chief of infectious diseases at the Children’s Hospital of…

Anti-vaccine Parents Embrace Homeschooling to Avoid Vaccines

Parents skeptical or opposed to vaccinating their children are turning to homeschooling to avoid vaccinating their children. During the first week in July, The Wall Street Journal reports, parents attended workshops hosted by the anti-vaccine organization New York Alliance for Vaccine Rights. The events covered course requirements, instruction plans, extracurricular activity options, and potential financial…

How a vaccinated woman’s death exposes the threat of anti-vaxxers

Jessica Glenza, The Guardian Catherine Montantes was a 28-year-old college student, training to become a border patrol agent, and recently diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder. When she stepped into the Lower Elwha tribal health clinic in Port Angeles, Washington, she had no idea she arrived just an hour after a 52-year-old infected with measles. The…

Anti-Vaxxers Are A Very Old Problem

Kiona Smith, June 30, 2019, Forbes The American anti-vaccine movement is nothing new; it started in 1721, when people took to the streets of Boston to try and stop physician Zabdiel Boylston from inoculating people against smallpox. Imagine a major U.S. city with half its population too sick to get out of bed, desperately in…

Vaccine Denial is Still Largely on the Left

Two very interesting articles published last Thursday by The New York Times point out that anti-vaccine activism is largely on the political Left. In light of a measles outbreak in Rockland County, New York, the Grey Lady profiled the Green Meadow Waldorf Schools based out of Chestnut Ridge that are bastions of anti-vaccine activism. According…