Experts from three provinces have offered their services for free as a Toronto father fights an arbitrator’s ruling that lent legal credence to discredited anti-vaccination views. The father is appealing an arbitration decision that upheld his ex-wife’s opposition to having their two children vaccinated. The four doctors — infectious disease specialists including a university professor and two public-health officials — came forward of their own accord as concern mounts about outbreaks of measles and other infections linked to vaccine opposition. In arguing to have the case re-opened, the father’s lawyer, Joanna Harris, also blasted arbitrator Herchel Fogelman’s ruling. Fogelman did qualify two witnesses called by the mother as experts, relying mostly on Dr. Toni Bark.

Source: National Post May 31, 2019 18:29 UTC