Archive for the 'Vaccinations' Category

Quick picks *UPDATED*

The kids are back in school and I thought the house would fall silent and I would blog again. However, it turns out — and this is very flattering — that there were a lot of people who wanted to talk to me but felt they couldn’t while the kids were around. I’ve [...]

Joe Klein isn’t as smart as he thinks he is

Drudge proves himself to be a good sport by linking to a Joe Klein post at Time Magazine’s website, in which Klein savages Drudge. Drudge is probably more than a good sport, though. He’s smart, too, because all that the post does is make Klein look like an idiot. Here is Klein’s [...]

Vaccines and proportionate risk

I live in an area where most of the parents I know are college grads.  It is amazing to me how many of them (not the majority, but a significant number) have decided not to vaccinate their children because of the “risk.”  The risk, of course, is the possibility that a child will have a [...]