What is the antivaxx movement?
I usually say that there are four riders of the antiscience apocalypse - antievolucionism, rejection of the scientific consensus on climate change, anti-GMO and anti-vaccine movement. The latter, "antivaxxers", has devastating consequences. Anti-vaccine movement is a movement that brings together different "theorists" who are commonly opposed to vaccination-immunization practices. Vaccination is certainly one of the most important human inventions, a small thing that saved millions and millions of lives and raised the quality of life. Yet, in spite of this, the vaccines are endangered with propaganda that spreads fear and, unfortunately, the immunization rates decrease. There are diseases that we can not prevent, and there are diseases that can be prevented. Some of these diseases, especially poliomyelitis, pertussis, and diphtheria, are not harmless and it is much cheaper to prevent them and enable children's healthy childhood than to cure these dis...