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Penn's - and the syringe's - point

Penn Jillette’s antivaxxer stance challenges Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s discredited views, emphasizing vaccination's importance for parents.

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Sure, you know Penn Jillette -- the larger, louder half of Penn & Teller. Penn's an interesting character -- a vocal skeptic, to say the least, in that what's on his mind is on his lips. He and I don't always agree, but when we do, we do. Such is the case with antivaxxer Dr. Andrew Wakefield, the long-discredited and now disbarred guy who started the whole modern craze of getting preventable diseases to resurge. I've been pretty clear about what I think of Dr. Wakefield, and now you can see what Penn thinks, too, on his new online show Penn Point: [Warning: It's Penn, so duh, it's NSFW.] Penn -- the father of two cute, precocious kids, I'll note -- was gracious in mentioning one of my own blog posts eviscerating Wakefield, and there are plenty of others, too. I'm glad Penn's putting his weight behind this as well. ...

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