If You're Afraid of Science..
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 4 January 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Measles is coming back to the USA in part because the G.O.P. has declared war on evidence and logic. Plus- Thom reads from "Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health" by Dr. Leana Wen.
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| 1:16.6 | So in 2000, the year 2000, we ended measles in the United States. |
| 1:21.6 | Measles is a terrible disease. |
| 1:23.6 | Most of us, my age anyway, had it as kids. |
| 1:26.6 | This was before there was a vaccine available. |
| 1:28.4 | Now there is. People died from measles. I had a friend who was deaf because of measles. |
| 1:35.3 | People lose their vision because of me. I mean, there's all kinds of side effects. You get encephalitis, |
| 1:40.6 | you get brain damage, causes ear infections, bronchitis, laryngitis, croup, I mean, all kinds of side effects. |
| 1:46.9 | I mean, measles is not a small thing, particularly if you're older. |
| 1:50.7 | In 1965, President Kennedy signed the Vaccination Assistance Act into law, which provided federal funding to make sure that basically anybody who had a baby could get that baby vaccinated without having to pay a fortune for it. |
| 2:06.1 | We wiped out measles. We wiped out polio. |
| 2:09.5 | We're on the verge of wiping out other diseases too. |
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