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Megan McArdle

Your Right to Skip Shots Ends Where My Kid Begins

You have a perfect right not to vaccinate your children. You should, however, have to pay the consequences.
Anti-vaxxers can ignore the needle but not the damage done.

Anti-vaxxers can ignore the needle but not the damage done.

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Like many people on the Internet these days, I feel pretty strongly about vaccination: I'm for it. So how to convince anti-vaccine parents that vaccination is in the best interests of their child and society?

In the past, I have had some pretty sharp words about parents who do not vaccinate their children. At the time, people chided me: I might be right, but scorn wasn't going to persuade anyone.