Andrew Wakefield vs Stanley Plotkin: you be the judge

How will history remember each of these men? The future of our kids depends on getting it right.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

— Upton Sinclair

To go to such extreme–and desperate lengths –to annihilate Dr. Wakefield (the person, note, not the science) some people must be very afraid. Afraid, presumably, that parents might actually believe something that is blatantly obvious: that is that all vaccines can cause serious adverse reactions, including autism.

— Dr. Richard Halvorsen, British doctor, author of The Truth about Vaccines

NEW HOPE, Pennsylvania—Dr. Stanley Plotkin is the godfather of the modern vaccine industry. Now 92 years old, he literally wrote the book on vaccines; called Plotkin’s Vaccines, it’s now in its seventh edition, and the textbook is recommended by Bill Gates as an “indispensable guide to the enhancement of the well-being of our world.” Even at his advanced age, in a recent, super creepy poll of the Top 50 “most influential people in vaccines,” Dr. Plotkin was voted #5 (Bill Gates was…