Vaccine denial is not only silly, it is a public health threat. Here in North Texas Tarrant County (Fort Worth) is the center of a large outbreak of measles and whooping cough. This is because a bunch of religious zealots at one of the local megachurches decided that vaccines were somehow against their god or "dangerous" (a rumor spread and repeated by people who deny science). Now the church has reversed itself and they are holding shot clinics, but it is too late for those who have gotten sick. That horse is out of the barn an in the community at large.

A population stays safe from many of these childhood diseases when a large percentage of the general population is vaccinated. We have gone many years now with these skeptics keeping their children from getting shots and being home schooled so they aren't challenged by school officials who insist on inoculations. It's a selfish way to raise children and can have fatal consequences. There no virtue in denying the sound science behind the vaccine programs that have been in existence for decades, preventing many public health disasters.

SRS