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Health Care & Hospital Law,
Administrative/Regulatory

May 15, 2014

Speech, intimidation and the anti-vaccine movement

Several events in the past weeks have brought home the point that the anti-vaccine movement's call for debate only stands as long as they hear what they like to hear and avoid criticism.

Dorit Reiss

Professor
UC Hastings College of the Law

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Several events in the past weeks have brought home the point that the anti-vaccine movement's call for debate only stands as long as they hear what they like to hear and avoid criticism. From trying to get a vaccine researcher fired for a single statement, through threatening a scientist-writer with a lawsuit, to attacking a high school film club, the anti-vaccine movement reaffirmed anthropologist's Anna Kata's finding that "rather than debating the merits of the evidence, the anti-vac...

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