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The Return of the Anti-Vax Movement

 The Anti-vaccination movement is coming back. It's going to come back strong and there is very little that can be done about this anymore.  It is going to seem reasonable to a much wider audience than before. This new movement is going to combine the pseudoscientific beliefs of the twelve year old movement with the libertarian-sovereign citizen motive that has always been around; and again, there's very little that can be done about it.  The previous movement combined a few things: a cultic milieu that came into being alongside universal high speed internet. This phenomenon did not create the distrust of experts but it hastened its growth to people that otherwise would not have this tendency. It was spearheaded by an actress with no qualifications but who seemed real earnest in what she was talking about. She spoke for a well-qualified medical doctor who published a study in a very well respected medical journal that seemed to argue that the MMR vaccine was not as safe a...