Episode

Tom Levenson: Anti-vaxxers are living in the past

Podcast: Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
Published: Aug 11, 2026
Duration seconds: 2227
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Summary

Opposition to vaccines goes back to their invention. And while doubts about vaccine safely may have been justified 300 years ago, those same doubts have lingered among those opposing vaccines today – vaccines that are overwhelmingly safe and have saved millions of lives.