A Canadian couple convicted of medical neglect for letting their toddler son die of meningitis have been sentenced to a few months in jail each. David and Collet Stephan were convicted in April of “failing to provide the necessaries of life” to their son Ezekiel, who was 19 months old when he died in 2012. The…

Robert De Niro appeared on The Today Show Wednesday to make it crystal clear that he personally supported the inclusion of anti-vaccination film Vaxxed in the Tribeca Film Festival. A Facebook photo posted yesterday shows that he also met recently with a group of people well-known in anti-vaccination circles,…

Actor Robert De Niro, who cofounded the Tribeca Film Festival, has released a statement about the anti-vaccination film by former doctor Andrew Wakefield. Vaxxed is set to screen during the festival, and DeNiro’s statement suggests that he personally supports its inclusion.

This year’s Tribeca Film Festival will include a screening of a film by Andrew Wakefield, the former doctor who was stripped of his medical license after authoring a discredited study that implied a link between vaccines and autism. A spokesperson for the film tells Jezebel that there will be “celebrity support” for…

We learned many things this year from our colleague Allie Jones at Gawker about Kristin Cavallari and her brand-new book Balancing in Heels, but there’s always more to discover. Like Cavallari’s new recipe for goat’s milk baby formula, which, while delicious and wholesome-sounding, is not something you should probably…

After evading arrest for more than a year, Megan Everett, 23, has been caught and charged with kidnapping her 3-year-old daughter Lilly. Now, you might ask, “Why the hell would a mother kidnap her own daughter?” The totally rational answer: to keep her daughter from being vaccinated.

California recently passed SB-277, which drastically tightened the list of excuses that’ll get you out of vaccinating your kids. Unfortunately, anti-vaxxers aren’t ready to cooperate, because that’s how much not vaccinating their kids means to them.

Jim Carrey had himself a good solid multi-part Twitter meltdown on Wednesday, ranting about vaccines containing harmful levels of thimerosal, an organic compound that contains mercury. (They don’t.) Carrey got his non-facts from a documentary called Trace Amounts, which, as the Hollywood Reporter points out, has been…

Well, it could be.

California Governor Jerry Brown has signed SB 277 into law, which will require the vast majority of children to be fully vaccinated to attend school or daycare. The debate over the bill was... robust.

The battle over SB 277, California’s bill mandating that children must be fully vaccinated to enroll in schools or daycare, has been tough, emotional, and completely bonkers, creating a new wave of vocal anti-vaccination activists, some of whom are willing to dox, harass and threaten anyone speaking in favor of it. SB…