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Re:Deadly Whooping Cough, Once Wiped Out, Is Back by sabat on Monday August 16, 2010 @04:35PM (#1609128)
I know it's not as simple as "the tea party, pro-ignorance, anti-science, pro-middle-ages movement is responsible for this." But there is no doubt in my mind that the rise of anti-vaccine ignorance played a good part.
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Re:Deadly Whooping Cough, Once Wiped Out, Is Back by abstractbill on Monday August 16, 2010 @04:57PM (#1609229)
I understand where you're coming from, but the anti-vaccine people I've met tend not to be tea-party types. They're hippies. Very liberal, and often convinced that the "medical establishment" is out to get them.
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Re:Deadly Whooping Cough, Once Wiped Out, Is Back by protomyth on Monday August 16, 2010 @05:20PM (#1609316)
The tea-party I've met are not anti-vacine. In fact, most of them have a very ill opinion of those "hippies ignoring their doctors".
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