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19 Oct 2009 12:16 pm
A Skeptic Too Far
Over on Richard Dawkin's blog, Michael Shermer types an open letter to Bill Maher on vaccinations:
Vaccination is one of science’s greatest discoveries. It is with
considerable irony, then, that as a full-throated opponent of the
nonsense that calls itself Intelligent Design, your anti-vaccination
stance makes you something of an anti-evolutionist. Since you have been
so vocal in your defense of the theory of evolution, I implore you to
be consistent in your support of the theory across all domains and to
please reconsider your position on vaccinations. It was not
unreasonable to be a vaccination skeptic in the 1880s, which the
co-discovered of natural selection—Alfred Russel Wallace—was, but we’ve
learned a lot over the past century. Evolution explains why
vaccinations work. Please stop denying evolution in this special case.
Maybe Bill should invite Michael Specter on some time soon.
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