DemocracyNow: Inside the Vaccine War

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http://www.democracynow.org/2015/2/5/inside_the_vaccine_war_measles_outbreak

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2015

VIDEO AND TRANSCRIPT AT LINK

GUESTS:

Dorit Rubinstein Reiss, professor of law at University of California, Hastings College of the Law, who specializes in legal issues related to vaccines, including exemption laws. She co-authored a report last year titled, "Funding the Costs of Disease Outbreaks Caused by Non-Vaccination."

Mary Holland, research scholar at NYU School of Law and adviser to Health Choice. She’s also a contributor to the blog, "Age of Autism." Holland is the co-editor of the book, Vaccine Epidemic: How Corporate Greed, Biased Science, and Coercive Government Threaten Our Human Rights, Our Health, and Our Children. And she is the mother of a child with regressive autism who, she believes, was injured by the MMR vaccination.

Dr. Paul Offit, professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and the director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He is also professor of vaccinology and a professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He is the co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine, RotaTeq, recommended for universal use in infants by the CDC. He is author of numerous books, including Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure and Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All.