… All these demonstrable facts makes reviewing the February 2015 Reuters American Insights poll on vaccines simultaneously reassuring, disturbing and potentially dangerous to the public’s health.
The most disturbing poll finding centered on the importance people place on politicians’ views on the subject. Politicians have been coming out of the woodwork to comment on the measles outbreak, and in several notable cases they have expressed dangerous points of view. …
Let me offer some medico-political advice. Anybody who does not accept the assessment of the world’s best public health and medical experts that vaccines have prevented hundreds of millions of deaths from horrific and deadly illnesses is too intellectually or ethically challenged to hold public office with responsibilities of any kind over the public’s health. CONT.
Howard Markel (U. of Michigan), Reuters