by Jennifer Margulis
After PBS’s Frontline aired five years ago, I wrote the producers a letter. Their decision to re-air their one-sided and irresponsible documentary tonight has prompted me to republish the letter in a slightly edited form.
When the show first aired live, the voice-over falsely identified me as someone who did not vaccinate my children, despite the fact that I repeated several times to the producer during the many hours that she was filming me that I was (and still am) pro-vaccine. My lawyer threatened PBS with a lawsuit. The voice-over was corrected for accuracy. But the damage was done: hate mail and death threats came in from around the country…
Despite the media’s love of a “war,” you actually can be pro-vaccine and against the current schedule.
The bottom line: We all care about the same thing: keeping every child in America safe and healthy. If our current vaccine schedule were actually doing that, we wouldn’t be having this conversation…