Concern about the antivaccination movement is clearly warranted. 1 It is also correct that most concerns about vaccine safety can, in theory, be allayed by logic and reason, and that the role of vaccines in improving public health should never be understated. The accumulation of more evidence and clearer communication about the differences between causation and correlation, would also help.

However, if the best solution is to become savvier about communication, then public health and medical commun ...