Randomness

My brother is 10-months-old. He has blue eyes, blond hair, a rash, a fever of 104 degrees, tubes hooked up to his little body, and he falls asleep to the hospital machines’ beep. Beep. Beep. He has measles. I’m a sucker for comic books. So I know all about supervillains, especially Sandman. But I know Sandman doesn’t actually exist. Real-life villains look like the Smiths. The Smiths might not be able to manipulate sand like Sandman, but they manipulate people. To stop parents from vaccinating their kids, they use huge scientific words like, “ According to Dr. Wakefield’s research, there’s a positive correlation between the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism, thus leading to the conclusion that vaccines cause autism. ” When an army of researchers in white lab coats come to the rescue and show how wrong Dr. Wakefield was when he said the MMR vaccine causes autism , the Smiths don’t retreat. Like Sandman they have superhuman endurance. They strike back harder...