A Nigerian barber said, of the idea that vaccines were a Western plot against Muslims, “If the White man really wanted to destroy us, there are many other easier ways to do it. They can poison our coca-cola …” I tend to agree. And I suspect that Coca-Cola, unpoisoned, is more harmful to our children than vaccination. Just because we have enemies, Sedgwick proposes, does not mean we have to be paranoid. Our cynicism may be justified, but it is also sad. That so many of us find it entirely plausible that a vast network of researchers and health officials and doctors worldwide would willfully
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Apply Occam's razor…
