The War on Science

摘要

Amy Wallace's excellent piece ("An Epidemic of Fear," issue 17.11) isn't really even about vaccines. It's about what Thomas Friedman calls the American "dumb as we wanna be" attitude,rnwhich combines stunning intellectual laziness, the erroneous concept that all information is equal, and the Internet to create a witches'brew that we're using to commit national suicide. The vaccine debate is just the tip of the iceberg: The same mentality has led to catastrophic stasis on climate change and health care reform.