A Dad Takes His Son To The Doctor And Discovers Fear Of Vaccines
As a science journalist, I know vaccines are safe. But when it was time to take my son to get his shots, I suddenly found myself overwhelmed by fear. Does science stand a chance against emotion?
I am a man of science. Okay, perhaps not of science, but certainly near it. As a science journalist, I'm science adjacent. But I consider myself to be bound by logic and facts.
Which is why it was weird when I took my infant son in for his first vaccines and started peppering his pediatrician with questions. I inspected the boxes, telling myself that I was concerned about a recent bad batch of vaccines in Oaxaca that made a bunch of kids sick. But really, I was looking for a label that read "Not the autism kind of
