It takes a village to raise a child…well, not according to Jack Wolfson.
Wolfson, a Jewish osteopathic medical physician has been busy making the media rounds criticizing parents who vaccinate their children.
He doesn’t care if his kids infect others. “I’m not going to put my child at risk to save another child,” Wolfson told CNN.
So much for the village. So much for social thinking.
This anti-vaccination movement show just how dangerous populist movements can be. Get enough people angry about something, make enough noise, and suddenly you re taken seriously. Darn the science. Darn the facts. My kid’s got Autism and I can’t handle it? Well, it must be the fault of a vaccine, nevermind that there’s not a shred of proof for the argument. And let’s just pretend that vaccines haven’t nearly eradicated diseases that used to have long-lasting ill effects on people, such as, for example sterility in men. Had Jack Wolfson contracted measles as a child, there’s a decent chance his “pure child” would’ve been theoretical.
Now that illnesses such as mumps, measles and rubella have become so rare in our society, these hacks seem to forget that they still exist and can be extremely dangerous. Maybe they should take a trip to India, where there’s a resurgence of polio, or the many other less developed countries still plagued by the common childhood illnesses that quacks like Wolfson just wave off. Or heck, even closer to home, for example in California, where his comrades in the nonsensical anti-vaccination movement have suffered fatalities from whopping cough and measles.
Yes, it takes a village…but what happens when the villagers don’t care about their neighbors?
Read related IJN editorial, Chris Christie, Mr. Panderer
