The Rabies "Racket"

Healthy skepticism is obviously the lifeblood of a functioning society, yet there are moments when distrust of The Man can have dire consequences. That is too often the case in the public-health sphere, which we reckon makes sense—the notion of injecting ourselves with foreign agents is terrifying, especially since it's so hard to observe how those agents act inside the body. And so recent history has been peppered with controversies in which medical advances have been reviled as dangerous...