This could be considered a counterpoint to yesterday’s story, but those vaccines-cause-autism crusaders (who also loathe the Paul Offit profiled in the piece) may finally be having an impact:

“I used to say that the tide would turn when children started to die. Well, children have started to die,” Offit says, frowning as he ticks off recent fatal cases of meningitis in unvaccinated children in Pennsylvania and Minnesota. “So now I’ve changed it to ‘when enough children start to die.’ Because obviously, we’re not there yet.”

(via Andrew Sullivan)