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An LA Times blog by Elizabeth Snead has an interesting quote from the self-appointed expert on childhood vaccinations. To set it up, she is responding to (fellow) vaccination expert Amanda Peet’s comment calling parents who choose not to vaccinate their children (perhaps accurately) “parasites”:

“She has a lot of [nerve] to come forward and be on that side, because there is an angry mob on my side, and I like the fact that I can say she’s completely wrong,”

Interesting statement. Peet has a lot of nerve to vocally oppose your….vocal opposition to vaccination, because, you have an “angry mob” on your side. 

I think its ironic that McCarthy chose that phrasing. I would add “torch-wielding”, but otherwise I think its a perfect fit for the anti-vaccinationists.