Good Law | Bad Law

Outbreak outrage!   Aaron Freiwald, Managing Partner of Freiwald Law and host of the weekly podcast, Good Law | Bad Law, is joined by Georgetown University Law Professor Nicholas Diamond to discuss the anti-vax movement, the surge in measles around the country, and compulsory vaccination.   It seems like every day more and more people are being diagnosed with illnesses we thought were eliminated years ago. Illnesses like mumps, measles, and whooping cough have all started appearing again in recent years and can be tied back to unvaccinated children. Some may ask, “if the vaccines are so effective, why wouldn’t everyone get one?” It’s a valid question, but it has a complicated answer.   Professor Diamond, who also teaches at George Washington University in D.C. and is also a consultant to pharmaceutical companies, walks us through the reasons some people don’t get their children vaccinated, including religious objections and studies that concluded vaccines caused autism in young children. Although these