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Dr. Philip Landrigan: “The Dangers of Vaccine Denial”

  • The New York Times
  • New York, NY
  • (February 07, 2015)

In reporting on poverty worldwide, I’ve seen how much vaccines improve human well-being. I understand how troglodytes in the Taliban or Boko Haram can be suspicious of vaccines, but politicians here in affluent, well-educated America? Moms and dads in Santa Monica? Philip J. Landrigan, MD, the chairman of the department of preventative medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, says that there may be environmental factors linked to autism, but these relate to endocrine disrupting chemicals in consumer products, not to vaccines. Learn more