Greg Marvel is President of the Board of
Education for the San Ramon Unified School District. He is also an anti-vaxxer.
In fact, Marvel claims to be “a strong
believer in the use of vaccines.” However, he said of Leslie Manookian’s antivaxx propaganda movie The Greater Good (review here)
that “it presents a balanced argument,
with national experts advocating for universal vaccination, while others in the
film present cautionary arguments.” If you think the conspiracy ravings of The
Greater Good presents a “balanced argument”, you are delusional. And
anti-vaccine. Given that he is also a school board president, the fact that he
sees The Greater Good “as a starting
point for each viewer to begin the discussion within their own families about
the benefits and risks associated with vaccinations, and thus strongly
recommend that every parent watch this film,” is deeply problematic. One
also wonders whether it is considered within the scope of his role to send a letter
on school board stationary praising the film to antivaccine groups. Well, the
antivaccine Canary Party used Marvel’s endorsement for all it was worth.
Of course, such actions from a school board
president should, in a reasonable world, lead at least to some serious
criticism. Instead, since San Ramon is apparently a hotbet for antivaccine
activism, he received support. Nancy Sheets, “a credentialed school nurse” in the San Ramon district endorsed the conspiracy flick, too.
Diagnosis: Wtf, San Ramon? Greg
Marvel is a conspiracy theorist with a penchant for pseudoscience, and a danger
to your children and community (Nancy Sheets, too). Get him out.
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