Anti-vaxxers are forming internet troll mobs to intimidate and silence doctors that defend the effectiveness of vaccination.

The anti-vaxxers risk their own illness, and I believe people have a right to do that if they wish. However, by organizing to mislead people about vaccines, they lure potentially millions of others to their deaths. They also endanger the people that, due to various other medical conditions, cannot be vaccinated. The only protection for them is to be surrounded by a society in which nearly everyone else is vaccinated.

In the DR Congo, distrust for medicine leads to hostility towards the treatment for Ebola. The outbreak there has continued for months, since the methods that have ended other outbreaks cannot be applied.

This could lead to the death of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands, who if treatment had been allowed would not even have caught the infection.