That guy who published a "scientific" article stating autism is caused by vaccinations but falsified his results to support his unsubstantiated claim should be held to pay restitution for his fearmongering. He should have to cover the cost of all of these easily avoidable medical maladies and should have to start an aggressive campaign to educated the public on the truth and to counter the false one he spawned.

I honestly agree with you! If anybody chooses not to vaxinate they should be denied any medical treatment forever- since they do not believe in medicine and spread the "big pharma makes us sick" b******t they should be given the opportunity to cure themselves.I actually remember a case where a baby actually died from meningitis because his anivax barely literate mother decide to treat him with 'natural' remedies like store bought honey,etc.Baby dies in horrible pain , she gets charged for child negligence and ... Accodring to her it is the GOVERNMENT'S fault as they made her child sick on purpose.Becase, you know, government gives nonvaxinated children horrible diseses to teach their parents a lesson.

I agree. The religious exemption has become a joke, I bet that 90% or more of people who don’t vaccinate are lying and have no religious objection to this anyway. They’re just playing the system for whatever stupid reasons they have not to vaccinate.

Why bring religion into it? What religion forbids vaccination? Honest question here.

there needs to be laws requiring parents to pass several difficult tests.

It's not just about religion. I'm a practicing Christian who would have had my kids vaccinated if I'd had any. Religion is not necessarily equal to stupidity. When that fraudulent study showing a link between vaccines and Autism was published my sister was reluctant to have my nephew vaccinated, but she changed her mind once it was demonstrated that the study was not valid and the doctor who published it lost his license to practice. This is pure choosing to be ignorant.

Agree, agree, agree!She should be held accountable & prosecuted! She sounds like a narcissistic mother who only had kids to add to her "status" & the second she gave birth she handed the baby to a nanny to raise. She doesn't sound like she has any concern or love for her children at all. Her children have a life- threatening illness b/c of her bad decisions but instead of clueing in to the "aha moment" life gave her she still is worried about her image/status. If she did any other thing that put her child's life at risk she would be legally accountable but b/c it's her it's due to her "beliefs" we do nothing! I'm all for freedom to believe what you want but the second it threatens the very LIFE of others (especially those who can't defend themselves) we should take action!

dont forget smallpox

Would they allow a little boy to contract mumps?? Probably - the disease wont kill him - but lot less chance of grandkids

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Frankly that post looks like trolling to me. It seems constructed for no other purpose than to attract scorn and serve as an example that can be later cited. We're all so eager to see a concrete example of the stupidity that we know is in the world but... this seems too well constructed to provide that example. "My unvaccinated son is sick from my unvaccinated daughter, and I need some encouragement. What do you say, world?" Um, yeah.

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Aunt Messy: I think you didn't read a thing I wrote. You're simply saying what I already said: we vaccinate for dangerous illnesses. We do that because the SMALL BUT REAL risk of vaccinations outweighs the risk of the illness in question. You named some illnesses we vaccinate against. Duh. And you accused me of saying the OPPOSITE of what I actually said. Don't call me names when you're being an idiot. And Γεώργιος Γιολδάσης: another reading fail. I tell my patients to get vaccinations all the time. Once again, you're arguing against a point I didn't make. Please people, if you're going to be insulting, at least read and understand the guy's point. Don't be an A*****E while repeating what he said.

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Don't oppose stupidity by saying stupid things yourself. It's well known that there are occasional complications of vaccination. These are uncommon, and the benefits of vaccination demonstrably outweigh the risks. There is a reason, for instance, why we don't try to cure the common cold. We could try, by vaccinating people against the 70-or-so viruses that we mean by "the common cold." But exposing people to the risk of 70 vaccinations to stop a disease that isn't going to kill you... it's not worth it. On the other hand, a vaccination to prevent the flu, which does kill: that is worth it. Measles, polio, smallpox, hep B, these are worth it. Wakefield did spread bad info and probably fraudulent data, and that fueled a lot of silliness. But being silly on the other end of the argument is still being silly.

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Wow, Laughing Fan, MammaG, Aunt Messy, and Γεώργιος Γιολδάσης all replied with complete nonsequiturs about my comment and completely misconstrued my words. My post was down voted into oblivion so I can't reply. Laughing Fan and MammaG: I did not defend Wakefield, so your rant about him is completely misplaced. Where I come from, "fraudulent data" is damning. Where you come from, you apparently need tantrums. Fine. Whatever floats your boat. But the fact that his studies were fictional doesn't mean that vaccinations themselves are 100% fine, which is what what *I* was replying to. If you don't understand that, then you're perpetrating a fraud of a different kind. What's worse: when people *do* get a complication, and they've read people say "there's no credible evidence..." then you run the risk that they'll become anti-vaxxers. We do vaccinations because their benefit outweighs their risks. And we only do them where vaccinations outweigh the risks.