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    Robin Abcarian: A new skirmish in the California vaccination wars breaks out. Science will prevail

    by Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times Apr 26, 2019 4 minutes

    I thought the vaccination wars in California pretty much fizzled out in 2015 after we outlawed religious and "personal belief" exemptions for children whose parents don't want to immunize them against diseases like pertussis, measles and mumps.

    Silly me.

    Lack of faith in scientific consensus is a sad but permanent feature of our social media-driven world. Paranoia is an effective business model.

    Parents who oppose vaccines are not stupid; in fact, they are often surprisingly well-educated, considering the pseudoscience and unfounded claims they are willing to embrace.

    It should come as no surprise, then, that many have found a way around the law, which still allows for medically

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