Can Trump Stop the Measles?

When I was a kid, I used to think that doctors were the smartest people of all time because they knew things which nobody else knew.

What I didn’t realize then, but I’m beginning to realize now, is that learning enough to get you through medical school and an internship doesn’t mean that you know anything other than what you memorized in some medical textbook.

But with the measles virus now evidently spreading to at least five states and probably more, some of the things being said by doctors and other people involved in health care are just so fuc*ing stupid that I’m beginning to wonder whether you can get through medical school with an IQ situated on the left side of the bell curve.

I’m thinking in this regard to the statement issued yesterday by David Weldon, M.D., after his nomination to be head of the CDC was withdrawn just prior to his appearance before the Senate health committee because his stance on vaccinations would make his nomination tenuous at best.

Weldon is not only a licensed physician but also held the House seat representing Florida’s central congressional district from 1995 to 2009. In that capacity, he pushed for research into autism and accused the CDC of shirt-circuiting studies which would have found a connection between autism and vaccines.