Intended for healthcare professionals

Rapid response to:

Education And Debate

Anti-vaccinationists past and present

BMJ 2002; 325 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.325.7361.430 (Published 24 August 2002) Cite this as: BMJ 2002;325:430

Rapid Response:

Help it's ELPS

My habit is to read the BMJ for an hour early on Saturday morning -
in bed. I was baffled therefore by this article on vaccination based on
the premise that 21th century argumentation paralleled that of the 19th
century. My problem - the fact that the arguments themselves (that upon
which this debate could truly be judged) were not included in the article
- but rather on bmj.com! As a paper journal article I found it empty and
a little condescending - as were the witches on the front cover. Let's have
an open debate on the issues and lets not put the important bits on the
website.

Competing interests: No competing interests

28 August 2002
Trevor D Thompson
Clinical Lecturer
University of Bristol BS6 6JL