Fundamentalism is bad for your health

The last outbreak of polio in Canada and the United States, in 1978–1979, was the result of travel from the Netherlands, where an outbreak was ongoing, to Canada by members of the Reformed Netherlands Congregation, a religious group that refused vaccinations.

Jack Woodall, in The Scientist


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Gelkinghe  op 16 februari 2006 @ 19:45:49

In de achttiende eeuw zijn er felle polemieken over inenting gevoerd, en sindsdien volharden geloofsfanatici in hun afwijzing van inenting (een verlichte uitvinding).