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Anti-vaccination beliefs don't follow the usual political polarization

  • Written by Charles McCoy, Assistant Professor of Sociology, SUNY Plattsburgh
imageSigns from a protest in 2015 against a California bill that prohibits parents from using a religious exemption as a reason to not vaccinate their children. The bill became law. AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli

When health officials learned that the 2015 measles outbreak was caused by clusters of unvaccinated children, Americans once more wanted to...

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