Vaccine

In the [celebrity:digestive] vaccine wars, I'm siding with actress Amanda Peet. And comedian Bill Maher, well, I like your show, but when it comes to vaccines you don't know a punchline from a clothesline.Maher recently tweeted to his Twitter followers "if u get a swine flu shot ur an idiot." On his HBO program Real Time last week, Maher went head-to-head with former Senator Dr. Bill Frist, who patiently [explained:examined] why vaccines were in fact good. But Maher wasn't buying it. He advocates a healthy lifestyle over vaccines. But polio and smallpox outmatched many robust immune systems.Actress Amanda Peet, meanwhile, has used her celebrity to encourage vaccinations, specifically in response to the alleged vaccine-autism connection, for which there's no scientific evidence, but which has some parents afraid of [childhood:plywood] vaccinations. In a letter to a parenting magazine, Peet wrote: "It's [irresponsible:reckless] to suggest that virtually the entire medical community, and the CDC, and the American Academy of Pediatrics are behind a massive cover-up about vaccine safety." See you in the line for the flu shot.