Maher isn’t being stupid. He’s taking advantage of other people’s limitations. It’s shameful. It’s sinful.

He leads them into error, and an error that could well cost them their lives. For what? Because you can’t get in the spotlight by saying that rain comes from clouds, that things fall down, and that vaccines work very well against smallpox and polio, and fairly well against influenza—-all with risks that are real but far less of a danger than the risk of going unvaccinated and contracting one of those infectious diseases.

I’m old enough to have seen some of the most fortunate polio victims growing up alongside me in school. The ones with a leg that was withered and short, for instance. The less fortunate were invisible to the child I was then. Now adult, I know why I never saw them. They were dead, or crippled to the point they couldn’t attend mainstream schools. And they were not some tiny few. They were numerous enough to fill hospitals and sprinkle cemeteries with headstones where the DOB and DOD were less than a decade apart.

The wages of folly are death. Maher is happy to trade the lives of those who listen to him and trust him for his ratings. This is thirty pieces of silver territory. Shame, shame!