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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Modern School: Superstition, Pseudoscience and Threat to Children Grow in California

Modern School: Superstition, Pseudoscience and Threat to Children Grow in California:

Superstition, Pseudoscience and Threat to Children Grow in California


The number of parents getting their kids vaccinated has been declining, particularly in affluent communities, like Marin, in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Bay Citizen has just published vaccination rates for kindergartners in the Bay Area. However, it is not just Marin with lower than normal vaccination rates. Many affluent communities had vaccination rates well below the state average, like Atherton and Burlingame in San Mateo County.

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Children are required by law to have proof of vaccinations before being admitted to schools in