his father was john solomon who had worked with the italian american foundation in new york. he made this a cause. i was actually on the polio vaccine working group at the cdc in the late 1990s. he was asked to be on that group. i can tell you his voice of important. when we moved from the late 1990s to the inactivated vaccine, and eliminated even this rare cause of polio caused by the vaccine, john solomon had everything to do with that move. i think vaccine activism is important. as any consumer activism is yes or no. it has to be science-based. you can't make stuff up. you can't say that you want vaccines to be safer so they don't cause autism. you can't make them safer if it doesn't cause the thing that you are arguing for. i do think that in some ways the pendulum is swinging back. i think that the media feels a little, and i guess i shouldn't speak from the media. i don't work for the media. i think the media has gotten a little bit more suspicious about some of this anti-vaccine rhetoric. certainly the autism story is no longer carried by mainstream media as a scientif