An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All | WIRED Magazine
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“The rejection of hard-won knowledge is by no means a new phenomenon. In 1905, French mathematician and scientist Henri Poincaré said that the willingness to embrace pseudo-science flourished because people “know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether illusion is not more consoling.” “
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