Journalist's Vaccine Piece Spurs Hate Mail (NPR)

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Journalist's Vaccine Piece Spurs Hate Mail (NPR)

"Journalist Amy Wallace's article in the November issue of Wired Magazine about the passionate, and sometimes angry, debate over whether vaccines cause autism drew some vitriolic response.

"'I've heard a lot of anger. I've heard that I'm stupid. I've heard that I'm greedy. I've heard that I did this to get famous,' Wallace tells NPR's Melissa Block. 'I've heard that I'm a whore; I'm a prostitute.'

"Wallace's article, An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All, profiled pediatrician Paul Offit, who invented the vaccine for rotavirus, and is a lightning rod for criticism in the anti-vaccination community. Last year, Offit's book, Autism's False Prophets, which says any risks of vaccination are dwarfed by the risk of childhood disease."

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OOPS!! !!

I had just started a thread in the News and Current Events forum that deals with very same subject....
I guess we were both listening to "All thing Considered" at the same time......

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt110676.html

I'll let the mods decide what to do with the duplicate thread.....