Tag: Thomas Hooker

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Who knew? Tightening up requirements for waivers for school vaccine requirements increases vaccine uptake!

Who knew? After states require parents wanting a personal belief exemption (PBE) to school vaccine requirements to do more than just sign a form, PBE rates decline.

Michigan is a frustrating state to live in these days. Our state government has just shown itself to be epically incompetent in its handling of the Flint water crisis, which I’ve written about a couple of times before. Our legislature repealed our mandatory motorcycle helmet law, and as a result in this state motorcycles are […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Politics Quackery

Michigan HB 5126: Endangering children by making nonmedical vaccine exemptions easier to obtain

It's hard to conceive how the Michigan State Legislature could be any more clueless, but once again it's demonstrated its talent for nonsense.

We have a problem with antivaccinationists here in Michigan. It’s a problem that’s been going on a long time that I first started paying attention to in a big way a few years ago when we started seeing pertussis outbreaks again due to low vaccine uptake. It’s a problem that’s persisted as last year we […]