Vaccines are safe

Measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, you name it – vaccines are safe, despite what social media would have you believe. But don’t believe me; believe some people who know.

In an extraordinary, if not unprecedented event, the three presidents of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a joint statement on March 8 supporting vaccination.

If you don’t know, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) was created in 1863 during the Civil War. It established the National Research Council in 1916 at the request of President Wilson to provide advice to the government in times o...