The United States is increasingly becoming a nation where science is considered to be not fact-based, but just a political position. Nowhere has this been made clearer than in the anti-vaxxer movement. Americans are so illiterate and ill-informed that that large numbers of them are actually willing to die for their stupidity. And now in 15 states, as this article describes, politicians who increasingly control healthcare in the United States are trying to discourage vaccinations. And what is happening? As this report describes, “In 2024, whooping cough cases reached a decade-highopens in a new tab or window and 16 measles outbreaks, the largest among them in Chicagoopens in a new tab or window and Minnesotaopens in a new tab or window, put health officials on edgeopens in a new tab or window. Most states are below the 95% vaccination threshold for kindergartners — the level needed to protect communities against measles outbreaks.”