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That's not just a throwaway movie line. There is strain of "body paranoia," for lack of a better term, that infects the public from time time; first it was fluoridation, a communist plot to sap our spirits and our manliness with fluorine in the public water; and lately this has morphed into the anti-vax movement.

Where did this theory come from? On the "scientific" side, it came from The Lancet, the leftwing British medical journal that also told you they had determined theup to nearly a million Iraqis died "due to" the war. When you hear that "million dead" claim, that's from the Lancet, and the Lancet still stands behind it.