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I have always had a very hard time understanding what benefit their is in the positions taken by anti-vaxers since the underlying research has been discredited, it’s author suspended from the practice of medecine, and the undeniable benefits of vaccination re-stated by all responsible medical professionals and organizations.
What makes the anti-vax position even more difficult to understand is that the scourges of polio and smallpox exist in very recent memory. Major outbreaks of polio were common as recently as the 1950s, and Philip Roth has dedicated a short novel to the polio outbreak in 1940s Newark. Unfortunately, many people chose to believe Jim Carrey and Jenna McCarthy over the surgeon general and Jonas Salk.