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Classify Refusal To Vaccinate Children As A Mental Disorder

Created by M.T. on February 05, 2015

Refusing to vaccinate one's children is dangerous, not just to those children, but to the entire community. Moreover, the 'anti-vaxxer' belief that vaccines are linked to mental disorders is not supported by scientific evidence. This harmful, irrational belief should, itself, be classified as a mental disorder. President Obama, please direct Surgeon General Vivek Murthy to request that this disorder, to be called Jenny McCarthy Syndrome By Proxy, be added to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

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