Vaccines, climate change, and elections: How "question everything" became a new mantra
The Vaccine Book: Making the Right Decision for Your Child. “It’s like, here’s your birth certificate, and here’s when your mom was crazy for a few years,” she says. For a few years, Oyakawa, an occupational therapist, was an anti-vaxxer. Oyakawa vaccinated her first four children according to the routine schedule. But the birth of her fourth child was traumatic; she felt the doctors and nurses didn’t listen to her. “That kick-started me being very skeptical of the medical establishment,” she says. With her next child, Oyakawa opted for a home birth, with the help of a midw...