In today's culture of paranoia and fear, I genuinely believe that what I'm going to write about may actually be important. Of course, that might just be the folly of a teenager trying to make his blog work, take it as you will. Of all the recent fads and phenomenons, the one that has bothered, bugged and baffled me the most is vaccine hesitancy, the anti-vaxxers as they are commonly known. A quick history lesson, the sentiment of "vaccines are dangerous" started in 1998, when British gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield decided that the MMR vaccine predisposed children to "behavioural regression and pervasive development disorder". Autism. This is where the idea of vaccines cause autism came from, and with the development of the internet and quickening of the spread of information, the MMR vaccination rate genuinely began to drop. Andrew Wakefield lost his medical license the following year. But of course, the damage had been done, a