I'm about to be a father for the very first time to a beautiful baby girl. So, I'm going to try to write this article as calmly and rationally as possible.
anti-vaxxers
I hate bumperstickers for two reasons: (1) I do not want to know every political opinion held by the people driving in front of me on I-5; and (2) They often boil down extremely complex topics into ridiculously oversimplified mottos.
The media hits keep coming. Here's where we appeared in recent days.
The New York Times has done something that it very rarely does: It wrote an editorial in support of biotechnology.
One of these beliefs is not like the other: The moon landing was faked. 9/11 was an inside job. Vaccines cause autism.
Anti-vaxxers insist that measles is just a harmless childhood infection. After the Disneyland outbreak, anti-vaxxers derided public health concerns by referring to it as "Mickey Mouse Measles." The facts indicate otherwise.
Measles, which still kills about 90,000 people around the world every year, isn't the only microbe making a comeback.
It's a shocking number. Last year, nearly 90,000 people around the world died from measles.
Since writing about the increasing numbers of vaccinations earlier this month, it has been easy to feel like the score is tipping in public he
When a measles outbreak occurred at Disneyland roughly two years ago, anti-vaccine activists mocked it.