Vaccination: one journalist gets it right

I and a lot of other critical thinkers have deplored the magical thinking that leads people to fear vaccination more than disease. This has become the leading cause of scientific physicians lately, as evidenced by Science-Based Medicine. The press has an unfortunate habit of treating the antivaxers, the promoters of fear, as authority figures, and taking the ludicrous conspiracy theories of the fringers as equally valid with actual facts and logic.

I would therefore like to give Neil Steinberg of the Chicago Sun-Times credit for his column of October 12, 2009, in which he makes sense and tells the truth. It's refreshing and encouraging to see a journalist who actually does his job well. Thanks, Neil.