#sb 277

Out for signatures: A California ballot initiative by Cheriel Jensen that sounds as though it were written by Mike Adams

Back in 2015, California passed a bill that no one (least of all I) would ever have thought possible. I’m referring to SB 277, which banned all nonmedical exemptions to school vaccine mandates. Of course, the law wasn’t perfect. For example, it allowed any doctor to write a letter in support of a medical exemption, leading the way to the sale of medical exemptions by antivaccine doctors like “Dr.…

Legislation will protect every student’s right to be safe at school by ensuring the medical exemption process is not exploited

SACRAMENTO – Dr. Richard Pan, a pediatrician and state senator representing the Sacramento region and Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalezwho represents the San Diego area, introduced SB 276 today to strengthen oversight of the medial exemption process which a handful of doctors…

Medical exemptions soar in California as SB 277 makes personal belief exemptions unavailable

Before I get into the topic at hand, I want to explain why there was no post yesterday. Some of you on Facebook might have seen my post about why, but basically, we lost power last night. We’re still without power. In fact, the only reason I can write this is because I’m staying at my parents’ house tonight. No, it wasn’t weather. Rather, basically a nearby substation caught fire. Michigan…

SB 277 works. Period. No wonder antivaxers hate it.

The Disneyland measles outbreak began over the Christmas holidays of 2014 and continued for several months into 2015, ultimately spanning eight states and two additional countries (Canada and Mexico). It also represented a seismic shift in the battle to contain the malign influence of the antivaccine movement in that the outbreak centered the Magic Kingdom made it possible for California…

Whenever we discuss vaccines and vaccine hesitancy, thanks to Andrew Wakefield the one vaccine that almost always comes up is the MMR, which is the combined measles-mumps-rubella vaccine. In 1998, Wakefield published a case series of cherry-picked patients in which he strongly inferred that the MMR vaccine was associated with autism and “autistic enterocolitis.” Of course, even the way Wakefield…

The Medical Board of California initiates disciplinary action against antivaccine Dr. Bob Sears. It’s about time.

After all the bad news that I’ve been blogging about, it’s a pleasure for me to end the week with a bit of very good news, very good news indeed. That news came in the form of an article published in the Orange County Register with the glorious title Dr. Bob Sears faces medical board discipline in recommendation not to vaccinate. Behold: (more…)

Rob Schneider cries “FREEDOM!” to refuse vaccination

This weekend was the 4th of July, Independence Day. It’s the most patriotic holiday of all, at least for Americans. We celebrated it in the usual way, with parades, fireworks, the odd lost digit or two, and barbecues. Unfortunately, there’s another thing that the 4th of July inevitably brings on as well, and that’s the invocation of liberty to support dubious causes. Given what happened last year…

After SB 277, medical exemptions for sale, courtesy of Dr. Bob Sears and other antivaccine quacks

I realize that it’s a cliché to say so, but some clichés are true. Time really does fly. It’s hard to believe that a year ago California—and, by proxy, the rest of the country—was in the throes of a major political war over the bill SB 277. SB 277, you will recall, was a bill introduced into the California Assembly in the wake of the Disneyland Measles outbreak in early 2015 that eliminated…