Peter Hildebrand choked back tears as he told the crowd about his daughter, Daisy. She was 8 years old when she died in April, one of the two unvaccinated children lost in the measles outbreak that tore through West Texas. “She was very loving,” he told the audience.
It was Day 2 of the annual conference of Children’s Health Defense, the organization of vaccine critics previously led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. …
“The media have a lot to answer for,” said Polly Tommey, a senior Children’s Health Defense staff member on the panel. “I can’t imagine how many women, petrified hearing two girls had died unvaccinated, ran out and got” their kids the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine.
Sitting in the audience, I was moved and fascinated. How had the group’s leadership so successfully earned this man’s trust that he would agree to appear like this in service of their cause?
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Suffering without meaning is very hard for most people to bear. Children’s Health Defense, like religion, helps people put their suffering in context.
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For the anti-vaccine group’s devoted acolytes, I can understand why this is healing.
