A pediatrician says doctors do so at their own peril. He claims that when pediatricians ignored them in the 90’s, it led to the anti-vaccine movement on the internet:
Would things have been different if we had engaged our patients from the get-go by providing them with alternative Web sites, scrutinizing and rebutting anti-vaccine “science,” or posting studies demonstrating vaccine safety in the public domain? I would answer, emphatically, yes.





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