When Hillary Clinton stepped into the vaccine debate fray yesterday with this simple yet awesome message, it helped give the vaccine movement the boost it needed:

Clinton’s tweet came on the heels of Rand Paul’s comment on Monday when he said “that parents should be allowed to decide whether their children needed to be vaccinated, and that he had heard from parents whose children had suffered ‘profound mental disorders’ after being vaccinated,’ ” according to this report by the New York Times.

Paul was joined this week by none other than New Jersey Governor and presidential hopeful Chris Christie, who said parents had a “measure of choice” in matters such as this.

On Tuesday, Paul backtracked a bit, getting a hepatitis A booster and saying that he felt “science was definitive on the matter and that vaccines were not harmful.”

Regardless, this vaccine debate rages on. See some of the best (and by best, we mean backed by science, no cheap shots) tweets below:

And from Columbia University:

And this one, which retweets Melinda Gates’ response:

Or maybe this?

And a link to one great video about the recent worldwide spread of preventable diseases:

In this epic battle between science and “affluent California liberals,” as Jon Stewart so eloquently put it, why are we backtracking on a disease that was practically eradicated? All we can say is, Team Science.

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