But they’ll be princesses who vaccinate so it will be okay.
Thomas Jefferson was so delighted with the smallpox vaccine he actually learned how to administer it.
Yeah, sorry LavenderBlue, but I really hope you knew that the anti-vax crowd were some of the most viscous, nasty, and near-psychotic woo crowd out there. Otherwise this kind of reaction would have been quite a shocker.
Seriously: what is wrong with these people?
Oh we knew they were crazy going in. We even goaded them by asking for a foreword by Dr. Offit and a review by Orac himself. But this was an itch I had to scratch. I almost had no choice about it. I’m just about done scratching at this point, though.
True, they can be quite snotty…
I will be making a keynote address to the Essex Metro Immunization Coalition in East Orange, New Jersey, on March 20! The presentation will be at New Hope Baptist Church of East Orange, 144 Norman Street, East Orange, from 1 - 3 p.m.
Please feel free to join me.
Bumping this up to say that Your Baby’s Best Shot: Why Vaccines are Safe and Save Lives is a finalist in the Book of the Year Awards from Foreward Reviews. We’ve been nominated in the Health (Adult Nonfiction) category.
Yes!!!
Hooray!
Yay! can we vote?
Don’t we wish?
The winners will be announced tomorrow at the American Library Association’s annual conference:
I’d vote for you if I could!
I still need to get myself a copy of the book.
congratulations!!!
On behalf of my 2 year old son, who will be starting preschool in a few months (and so be in daily contact with kids), thank you. Who knows? You may have saved his life. It’s a statistical probability your book is saving SOMEBODY’S life right now.
The envelope please…
We didn’t win anything. The next book will, damn it! We hope to have a proposal in front of a publisher by year’s end.
That’s okay. We like you. We really like you!
Thank you. You are so sweet.
The book drives me crazy. I can’t even really read it again because all I can think is how I would have reworded dozens and dozens of sentences.
Not even a hint of what the next book will be about?
That probably means you are a good writer.
I’m proud of the work you do. And you took a lot of heat for it. Major props.
If I could draw worth a damn I’d publish an update of this book using info about Jonas Salk and the polio vaccine instead of Pasteur and the rabies vaccine. The story could use some updating to reflect it’s not like injecting soldiers into your body(as it would be with antiviral treatments or antibiotics) but it’s about training your body’s soldiers how to fight so they’ll be ready when they’re attacked. The mechanisms of the immune system are pretty cool, and kids could do well to have a good picture book which accurately reflects how it works in response to a vaccine.
Enjoy,
Steven