The anti-vaccination and anti-science movements are killing thousands of innocent people. Why don't government agencies and professional groups speak up?
In the preface of the new book by vaccine expert and pro-science crusader Peter Hotez, there are several acknowledgments of a kind that may never have appeared before in a book like it. There, Hotez expresses gratitude to the Houston Police Department, the Texas Medical Center Police Department and the security force of the Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine. These are all places where Hotez plies his profession.
Its appeal to the modern Republican Party has much to do with economics — challenging the scientific consensus on global warming, for example, allows the GOP to serve the anti-regulation interests of its Big Business patrons. The anti-vaccine movement was in many respects a natural fit.
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