Law Requiring California Parents To Vaccinate Their Children Likely To Pass

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15. They also saw

Three mile island, the Cuban Missile Crisis and other Cold War atomic brinksmanship, and birth defects from pesticides. They learned about questionable moments in bioethics like the Tuskegee Experiments, the history of eugenics in the U.S., and the psychological experiments of the 60s and 70s. They watched movies like the China Syndrome, Silkwood, and Fail Safe.

The last century has revealed many miracles of science, but it has also revealed many horrors of science as well. You can mock anti-vaxxers all you want (by the way - I don't believe anti-vax beliefs should be taken on as it's own belief system but rather be recognized in context in a variety of larger belief systems), but there are valid components of Twentieth Century culture which cultivated this particular strain of belief.

Again, this is not my belief and I'm not advocating it. I just have the gut feeling that the tone that has been taken toward "anti-vaxxers" is wrong, given the historic origins of those beliefs, and I suspect the backlash is going to hit the Democrats if we insist on being hardliners against a background of Fox "we're the good parent who wants to protect you from big government overreach...".