The tone of the piece is kind of pathetic. It's people who crave more power and prestige bemoaning their status as technicians. Huge numbers of people believe

The tone of the piece is kind of pathetic. It's people who crave more power and prestige bemoaning their status as technicians. Huge numbers of people believe all kinds of idiotic things in all sorts of unscientific domains, and this is not an interesting observation. This article only exists because between the lines they're talking about political power. This bit cracks me up. >Parents believe that even though doctors assure them that vaccines are safe, those doctors may be wrong. Therefore, the parents think they are entitled to throw their own judgment into the mix. The NERVE of parents to review the literature and conclude the autism threat may be greater than the vaccine protective benefits and make their own decision. It's not like billion dollar pharmaceutical products and associated government policies have ever hurt people before! The piece fails to even allude to the idea that scientific officialdom blew its credibility last century. A whole lot of stupid or evil policies and pronouncements that pushed people around were made under the banner of science. The laissez-faire people were almost always right.