It’s good to see, though, that somebody finally has taken umbrage and anathematized the bloggers, here. Thanks, Todd, especially for calling me “worst of all.” I’m afraid, however, that I’m not “anti-vaccine.” What I said was that I won’t simply have my kids shot up with whatever someone in a white smock wants to use on them. Polio? You bet, let’s vaccinate. But Chicken pox??!!! This is a normal childhood illness not helped, but rather made worse by the vaccine, which wears off by the time the child is old enough to get REALLY sick from the virus. Why vaccinate? The nurse told my wife it would keep her from having to miss work. There’s valuing your children. I could go on, but the point is that too much of the public health bureaucracy is concerned only with mass statistics that ignore risk factors (e.g. Hepatitis-B), treating us all like mindless objects they will make “more healthy” with the nostrum of the moment. I’ll make my own judgments on which nostrums to accept for my kids, thank you very much. “Experts” have made far too many deadly mistakes for me to simply suspend judgment and accept their recommendations on faith, whether in regard to health, the environment, economics, or what a decent, livable town looks like.