With one foot in the Hollywood clique the Huffington Post has had a habit of hosting anti-vaccination babble. It’s common within celebrity circles to find self-appointed experts such as stand-up comedian turned talk show host turned vaccination and medical expert, Bill Maher.

Similar to him we find Jenny McCarty and other self-appointed experts such as Ed Begley, Jr. the “energy expert” or Brad Pitt the architecture and urban planning expert. Who can forget Meryl Streep’s “testimony in congress regarding alar. Or how Jane Fonda, by way of the move “China Syndrome” became an expert on nuclear power — the movie acting as an “instructional film” for decades.

The scandal here is that a good majority of Americans take these feeble uneducated points of view as facts. In this case, it would be no surprise to find a large percentage of Americans being swayed by Maher’s ignorance on the subject matter then they would be a licensed medical doctor.