President Sergio Mattarella on
Monday slammed anti-vaxxers at a ceremony at the CERN nuclear
physics lab in Geneva.
It is not the first time that the head of State has come out
against vaccine skeptics, whose movement is fairly strong in
Italy.
Mattarella said we are living "in an epoch in which (we are
seeing) ill-considered skepticism, as well as unacceptable
opposition, to the results offered by the scientific method."
Italy has made 10 vaccines compulsory for school admissions,
but the policing has been lax.
Mattarella added that Italy had a "leading role" in the CERN
lab.
The lab's Italian director general, Fabiola Gianotti, told
Mattarella "here we are seeing an unprecedented adventure".
She hailed the contribution from Italy's Nuclear Physics
Institute (INFN).
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