A New York midwife who gave nearly 1,500 children homeopathic pellets instead of required vaccinations has been fined $300,000.

A New York midwife who gave nearly 1,500 children homeopathic pellets instead of required vaccinations has been fined $300,000, the state’s health department announced this week.

Jeanette Breen, who operates Baldwin Midwifery on Long Island, administered the pellets as an alternative to vaccinations and then falsified their immunization records, the agency said Wednesday.

The scheme, which goes back least to the 2019-2020 school year, involved families throughout the state, but the majority reside on suburban Long Island. In 2019, New York ended a religious exemption to vaccine requirements for schoolchildren.

The health department said immunization records of the children who received the falsified records have been voided, and their families must now prove the students are up-to-date with their required shots or at least in the process of getting them before they can return to school.

    • funkless_eck
      10·
      11 months ago

      be the us government in the last 100 years and don’t … deliberately infect people with syphilis (Tuskagee), deliberately test lead paint on their children (JH-KKI), test chemical weapons on them (Whitecoat), enact compulsory sterilization (Buck v Bell), adding spinal taps to kids (Wentworth), replace prison inmates testicles with dead men’s/animal testicles (San Quentin), or give them malaria (Stateville) or spray them with pesticides until they get lupus, brain issues or their skin is forever damaged (Holmesberg) spray an entire US city (San Francisco) with pneumonia-inducing bacteria (Seaspray), give a school class hepetits (Willowbrook), try to give the entire state of Georgia malaria (Operation Big Buzz), hire sex workers to give out their services for free and then inject people with experimental drugs and LSD (Midnight Climax), deliberately put mental health patients into months-long medical-induced comas, then wake them into them wearing a blacked out helmet where they can’t see or hear but are played a loop saying “You are a good person” while physically restrained, being randomly electrocuted and fed a cocktail of drugs… for weeks or months without rest, causing the patients to end up completely incapable of normal human function afterwards (MKULTRA Sub-proj 68)…

      probably some of that eroded some trust among the general populace (not an anti vaxxer btw but wanted to add some context that some concerns aren’t totally unfounded)

      • Devorlon@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        Because Anti-vaxxers don’t exist in other countries…

        It’s more that people are distrustful of large organisations in general (governments, business, religion). There’s a rightful suspicion of faceless entities, and I don’t think that can be “fixed”.

    • stoly@lemmy.world
      3·
      10 months ago

      They didn’t think that way when they got old, they always felt that way then got old.