The science behind the anti-vaccine movement?

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Is pseudoscience a science?

Anti-Science Claims of the Anti-Vaccine Movement

To understand just how anti-science the anti-vaccine movement really is, you simply have to review some of the the things that most anti-vaccine and pro-safe vaccine folks really believe.

“If there’s one thing about the anti-vaccine movement I’ve learned over the last several years, it’s that it’s almost completely immune to evidence, science, and reason.” David Gorski, MD

Did you know, that many folks who are against vaccines also believe that:

None of these beliefs are supported by science.

Many simply help folks justify their decision to skip or delay getting their kids vaccinated and protected against life-threatening vaccine preventable diseases. After all, why should parents think to get their kids vaccinated if they believe that the vaccines don’t work or aren’t necessary in the first place?

In fact, most of if not all have been disproven using true scientific principles.

And most are pushed by the most notorious anti-science web sites on the Internet.

Not only are these ideas anti-science, the pseudoscientific nonsense behind the anti-vaccine movement is dangerous because it scares parents away from vaccinating and protecting their kids from life-threatening vaccine-preventable diseases.

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