Letter: Commentary on vaccines makes national dilemma clear

Letter: Commentary on vaccines makes national dilemma clear

Becky Bartlett’s Dec. 28 commentary (“Ignorance about vaccines puts all Americans at risk”) expresses well the dilemma we face today with today’s federal leadership on health care. Willful, deliberate ignorance is a wretched substitute for informed, research-based decision making. Bartlett cites the long rooted, wrongful 18th century practices of “bloodletting, harsh purgatives, blistering agents and enemas” that contributed to the untimely deat…