Who is responsible?
While perhaps underappreciated, vaccines are perhaps the greatest advance in modern medicine. Diseases that killed thousands and devastated millions of lives are simply prevented. It's not perfect - no science is - but from a historical perspective, the change is beyond dramatic. And it seems that we have become victims of our own success. It's hard to imagine that during the worldwide influenza epidemic of 1917 that anybody would argue against vaccinations. It's just as hard to imagine parents of a child with polio refusing to vaccinate their other children when it became available on principled grounds. The argument that "it's not necessary to vaccinate since these diseases don't really exist anymore" is actually quite common. The fallacy is that most people don't know anybody with these diseases is precisely…