re: #574 ryannon

The science simply doesn’t support the anti-vaxxer position, and the anti-vax crowd is putting lives at risk precisely because it undermines the public health benefits to the community at large for communicable diseases that are easily prevented. Resurgence of diseases like measles, whooping cough, etc. are directly attributable to the anti-vaxxer crowd and the hysterics about how vaccines supposedly cause autism (because of thimerosol, which hasn’t been present in the vaccines for years, and yet rates continue rising).