Oh, and Jenny McCarthy? There's someone whom I trust to be a nobel prize winner.
I understand that when your kid is sick, you want something to blame. But talk about a convenient scapegoat... and one when scapegoated literally harms other kids.
A former boss of mine has a son with a congenital heart defect. He's had multiple surgeries, cannot get his blood fully oxygenated, and they didn't think he'd live to see 5 years of age. Thankfully he has, but his parents couldn't put him in the Marin County school district when they lived there.
Because all the rich hippy types in Marin County vaccinate their kids to only about a 70% level, compared with 95%+ in nearby counties. Essentially sending his son to school in that county would have been a literal death sentence.