[Phys-L] More blood Re: disinformation

[bernard cleyet <bernard@cleyet.org>]

> On 2020/Jan/27, at 09:26, John Denker via Phys-l <phys-l@mail.phys-l.org> wrote:
>
> The anti-vaxxers have blood on their hands.  Lots of it.

The “down” side of the first amendment.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/antivaxxers-go-viral-in-communities-battling-measles/2019/05/20/a476417c-78d7-11e9-bd25-c989555e7766_story.html   [1]



bc,  …     also wishes money was not speech.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckley_v._Valeo   


[1]  "In many ways, vaccines are a victim of their own success. Years ago, people were intimately familiar with the suffering caused by diseases such as polio, whooping cough and measles. Today, they’ve been virtually eliminated — along with the memory of their terrible effects.  As a result, generations of parents have grown up 'more likely to be scared of the vaccine than the disease,' said Paul Offit, …"