Michael Hiltzik: Lacking scientific support for their views, some anti-vaxxers opt for physical intimidation
"It was a terrifying experience," Kristina Lawson says.
The president of the Medical Board of California, Lawson was recounting how she was stalked and intimidated by men who identified themselves as representatives of America's Frontline Doctors, an anti-vaccine organization.
Inside the parking garage attached to her San Francisco Bay Area law office last Monday evening, she says, four men jumped out of an SUV that had been parked head-to-head with her car.
Wielding cameras and recording equipment, they confronted her as she tried to get into her car to drive home.
That was at the end of a day that she said had begun with a white SUV parked across from her driveway, and a drone flown over her house.
"They watched my daughter drive herself to school and watched me walk out of my house, get in my car, and take my two kids to school," Lawson wrote on Twitter. "That evening ... they ambushed me in a dark parking garage when they suspected I would be alone."
She said the men identified
