Anti-vaccine leader tells parents to fight immunization bill

[beam me up scottie]

8. "But to parents and others opposed to vaccines, Wakefield is almost hero-like"

He had more threatening forecasts, too. If immunizations are made mandatory, he said, Child Protective Services could “take your children away, and they will vaccinate them. And then they will bring them back and leave it to you to pick up the pieces.”

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But vaccine proponents say the damage was done as soon as that first paper was published. And now some are furious that he’s started speaking out against SB277.

“Andrew Wakefield is a discredited physician from another country who has come here, and now he’s meddling in our politics and our policies and jeopardizing the health of our children,” said Leah Russin, a Palo Alto mother who founded Vaccinate California, which promotes efforts to make childhood immunizations mandatory.

Russin said she knows of an infant, too young to be immunized, who got measles during this year’s outbreak and may have long-term vision problems now. “That’s crazy,” she said. “And that is Andrew Wakefield’s fault.”

But to parents and others opposed to vaccines, Wakefield is almost hero-like, and he presents himself as a martyr who keeps challenging mainstream science and medicine despite repeated attempts to discredit and disgrace him.

A martyr, just like Dr. Oz and RFK with his vaccine "Holocaust" analogy.

This man should be in prison.