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Thursday, August 13, 2026

An Excerpt from What's the Problem Here? on Townhall.com

I have some questions, and I'd genuinely like answers, because nobody seems to be offering any that hold up.

This week, President Trump signed an executive order reshaping the childhood vaccine schedule — trimming the number of recommended shots, splitting the MMR vaccine into three separate doses instead of one combined injection, and directing more federal research into the causes of autism. Within hours, the predictable chorus arrived. Anonymous public health sources quoted in wire reports. Unnamed officials whispering to reporters. Advocacy groups warning the sky is falling. A Public Citizen spokesman called it a "mindless anti-scientific assault." Doctors' associations lined up to push back. A federal judge has already blocked a prior version of similar changes after the American Academy of Pediatrics sued.

Here's my actual question, asked in good faith: what, precisely, is the problem?

Is it that spacing out vaccines poses some documented, catastrophic risk to children? Because I'll tell you what happened at my house this week. We brought home two new kittens, and at the vet, we were offered the option — routine, unremarkable, no hand-wringing required — to space out their vaccinations rather than deliver everything in one sitting. Nobody at that veterinary clinic accused us of "anti-science assault" for asking a scheduling question about a kitten's immune system. So why is the same basic question, asked about a human infant's immune system, treated as an act of civilizational sabotage?

Is the concern that splitting the MMR into three shots instead of one somehow reduces effectiveness? Because if so, that's a specific, testable claim, and I'd like to see it argued specifically rather than gestured at anonymously. Saying "this is dangerous" from behind a cloak of anonymity isn't science. It's a talking point wearing a lab coat.

Or is the real objection simpler and far less noble than public health? Is it that these officials, many of whom built entire careers on being unquestioned, cannot stomach a White House that keeps asking them to show their work? Because that's a different problem entirely, and it's one worth naming directly.

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