anti-vaccine movement

An analysis of World Health Organization data shows measles breaking 60,000 cases in 2018 — with twice as many deaths.

Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of Texas Children’s Hospital and president of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, foresees a dangerous measles epidemic erupting the Lone Star State by 2018 driven by plummeting vaccination rates while propelled by an anti-vaccination movement.

The wording of a back-to-school flu shot consent form sent home with students got under the skin of some central Texas parents, escalating to the point where an anti-vaccination group teamed up with a lawyer to issue a cease and desist letter.

The top prosecutor in San Antonio, Texas, reignited the anti-vaccination debate this week, sharing his personal views that childhood vaccines can and do cause autism.

ABC talk show host Jimmy Kimmel decided to enter the anti-vaccination debate last week by sharing his opinion that “anti-vaxxers” are both misinformed and creating a dangerous environment for other children. This week he is standing his ground.

Real estate mogul and “Apprentice” host Donald Trump talked vaccines, tax returns, Common Core, illegal immigration, and Israel in a wide-ranging interview set to air on Wednesday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show.” Trump said that while he is a “total believer” in

On his weekly Friday night panel discussion during his show Real Time, Bill Maher wasted no time jumping into the vaccination debate. Maher suggested that vaccines are preventable if people would simply eat better, attacked genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and defended climate change to make his own argument that inconsistencies within the medical profession are all the more reason not to trust vaccines.

The nationwide measles outbreak has swept 14 states, most predominantly in California, but the Lone Star state has been lucky so far, spared from the virulent virus. Yet amid this eruption, more Texas parents are saying “no” to inoculating their children from many childhood diseases including the Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine.

HBO’s Bill Maher complained that comparing climate change skepticism to vaccine skepticism was unfair to vaccine skeptics before attacking GMOs on Friday’s “Real Time.” “The analogy that I see all the time is that if you ask any questions [about

HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher opened his show by making fun of Chris Christie and Rand Paul for their positions on vaccine mandates, then defended vaccine skepticism on Friday. Maher stated in his open that “Rand Paul, you saw this,

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (R) declared “I don’t think our elected leaders, I don’t think political leaders, should be undermining people’s confidence in their doctors and what’s settled science” while criticizing the media for not reporting on vaccine comments made

Amie Parnes, Senior White House Correspondent for the Hill and co-author of the Hillary Clinton biography “HRC” declared that Hillary Clinton was “backtracking” from her earlier position on the link between vaccines and autism on Wednesday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show.” “She was

Hopefully the crude effort by the Democrat-media complex to use the current measles outbreak as a political club against Republicans is winding down, since there are important stories out there awaiting coverage.

Tuesday on Bloomberg TV’s “With All Due Respect,” Dr. Ben Carson, a potential 2016 candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, refused to disparage Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) over comments he has made on the vaccine debate. Hosts John Heilemann and

Columnist George Will reacted to a clip of Joy Behar attacking “neanderthal thinking on the right” by pointing out that many of her fellow leftists believe pseudoscience about fracking and GMOs on Tuesday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel.

Washington Post National Political Correspondent Karen Tumulty pointed out that “most of the energy in what they call the anti-vaxer movement in recent years has actually come from upscale, liberal parts of the country” on Tuesday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on MSNBC.

Tuesday on NBC’s the “Today” show host Matt Lauer called out the “liberal New York Times”  for attempting to claim the anti vaccine movement is conservative when actually the movement is most popular among “liberal affluent America.” Lauer said, “It

It’s suddenly obligatory for every Republican 2016 presidential hopeful to weigh in on vaccines and prepare for a grilling from the media if they voice anything less than enthusiastic support.

In a flashback from June 2014, Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” show regular Samantha Bee exposed the anti-vaxxer movement’s “outbreak of f*cking misinformation” mostly in “wealthy white liberal enclaves.” Follow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN

Monday, Fox News Channel host Shepard Smith slammed “science denier” parents who do not vaccinate their children. Smith said, “Hello, science. A lot of you want to talk about science deniers, that’s what you are. You measles no people! You

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s outreach to the anti-vaccination crowd is one of the strangest things anyone has done during the 2016 shadow primary season. In the midst of a significant outbreak of preventable, communicable diseases among children, Christie decided to throw anti-vaxxers a bone, making President Obama look enormously sensible by comparison.

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