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If you're twitter-inclined and want to keep up with the unending flood of anti-vaccine nonsense, follow Peter Hotez. He is fighting the good fight every day.



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Amazingly, he's not someone I'm familiar with - thanks.
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This is a great article on him and why he's doing what he's doing:

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/s ... les-texas/
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Isgrimnur wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2019 11:23 am Joseph Lagana
He attended Fordham University, where he received a B.A. in history in 2000
Fordham is the oldest Catholic and Jesuit-affiliated university in the northeastern United States
There's nothing about Catholic doctrine that rules out vaccines.
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I'm aware of that. But not everyone who is Catholic follows the doctrine.
Isgrimnur wrote: Thu Apr 04, 2019 2:40 pm Kentucky
In the past two school years, Boone County has been among the 10 Kentucky counties with the highest proportion of students with a religious exemption from vaccinations.
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In the 2017-18 school year, the most recent for which data are available, 46 of 1,791 Boone County kindergarten students, or 2.57%, had religious exemptions. The county's exemption rate compares to the statewide rate of 0.96%
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Assumption Academy and its elementary-level Our Lady of the Sacred Heart School operate under the Society of St. Pius X, a conservative Catholic sect that opts for the Latin Mass and resists the Vatican II church reforms.
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Every group has it's extremists that ruin it for everyone else.
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The core issue is that people are claiming relgious exemption when they really have a political/philosophical reason for not wanting to vaccinate. But they know the religious exemption is protected (under law) so they claim it. As a result, there is a belief that the religion actually promotes/believes this and it snowballs as parents talk to one another and indicate "Hey, it worked for me." So laws like the one in NJ would remove that option because we know that there's only a few religious sects that actually do not accept vaccination. I've yet to actually see or read about a legitimate formal religious objection to childhood vaccination, FWIW.

If you're bored and want to read more, check out this study from 2016.
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Isgrimnur wrote:Joseph Lagana
He attended Fordham University, where he received a B.A. in history in 2000
Fordham is the oldest Catholic and Jesuit-affiliated university in the northeastern United States
He was taught in a Jesuit institution and should know better
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I engage some antivax idiots on Twitter almost weekly and generally slammed them with fact after fact that they block me.

But every once in a while, some just come back at me with JAQ (just asking questions).
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Don't remember where I heard this, but I like it: "Autism causes vaccines." (Meaning that people on the spectrum are more likely to go into the STEM fields than people who aren't, doing research that leads to better vaccines.)
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