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Richard Dawkins’ painfully simplistic take on measles among Orthodox Jews: “Religion poisons everything.”

Post author By Orac
Post date May 16, 2019
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Richard Dawkins saw the measles outbreaks among the Orthodox Jews of Brooklyn and Rockland County, and Tweeted, “Religion poisons everything.” Unfortunately for him, it’s way more complicated than that.

Tags Brooklyn, Hillel Handler, Judaism, Larry Palevsky, Orthodox Jews, religion, Richard Dawkins, Rockland County

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