QOTD: 9/19/09

Joel Stein at Time:

We complain less about the liberal side of antiscience because the women who believe in this stuff are generally hot.

The subject of the article, the vaccination of kids and the arguments against, is something we’re constantly fretting about here. That’s because when you have a child who’s on imuno-suppresants you begin to view every one of these non-vaccinated kids as a potential source of life-threatening illness. While I respect the idea that parents are trying to do right by their children, they’re putting every other kid out there – particularly those with compromised immune systems – at risk. Those diseases are no longer as rampant as they once were because of vaccinations. When parents are having this discussion they need to know how it impacts the rest of the world, too.