Michael Specter in The New Yorker notes public fear of and opposition to the swine flu vaccine. Some of this is traceable to a public-health debacle over flu vaccine in 1976. Specter reports: “Last week, the political pundit Bill Maher dispatched a communiqué to his fifty-six thousand followers on Twitter: ‘If u get a swine flu shot ur an idiot.’”
Maher was called out on this last year on the Wall Street Journal editorial page, in conjunction with the release of his film “Religulous.”…