some of it is criminal. you re not putting hepatitis b in an infant. that s crazy. that is a shot for sexually transmitted disease. what? in a baby? as parents, we need to be a whole lot more serious about this in being aware of what is good and what isn t. and you don t take the word of the guy that s trying to give shot about what s good and what isn t. it s pretty clear. vaccines are one of the greatest success stories of modern medicine. one that remarkably finds itself under threat in the 21st century from denialists across the political spectrum. joining me, arthur caplan, professor of bioethics and director of division of medical ethics at new york university an langone medical center.
precipitation event, kind of things that cause intense flooding. there is a rise in sea level. the critical point is, we are not prepared for any of this. hurricane sandy, or hurricane katrina, gave us examples of how well we are prepared or in these cases, unprepared to deal with these extreme events. we are falling behind. it is getting worse all the time. as long as we let the world warm, we are always playing catch up ball and we re never going to be good enough at it. you have had to have the experience of being a scientist battling people on the other side who are often not scientists. what has the experience been like and what has the effect of this climate been on how the u.s. policy apparatus and government deals with the issue? the denialists have been given a big megaphone by private interest groups that want to continue the use of fossil
the kinds of things that cause intense flooding. there s already a rise in sea level, which means we re getting events of extreme high water, like having hurricane sandy. and the critical point is, we re not prepared for any of this. hurricane sandy or hurricane katrina gave us examples of how well we are prepared, or at least in these cases, unprepared, to deal with these extreme events. we re falling behind. it s getting worse all the time. we re as long as we let the world warm, we re always going to be playing catch-up ball. and we re never going to be good enough at it. you have had to have had the experience of being a climate scientist, battling people on the other side, who often are not scientists. what has the experience been like, and what has the effect of this climate denial industry been on how the u.s. policy apparatus and government deals with the issue? the denialists have been given a big megaphone by private interest groups that want to continue the use of foss
we re already seeing some changes in the extremes that we can tie to global warming. there s already more heat waves, there s already an anticipation of heavy precipitation events, the kinds of things that cause intense flooding. there s already a rise in sea level, which means we re getting events of extreme high water, like having hurricane sandy. and the critical point is, we re not prepared for any of this. hurricane sandy or hurricane katrina gave us examples of how well we are prepared, or at least in these cases, unprepared, to deal with these extreme events. we re falling behind. it s getting worse all the time. we re as long as we let the world warm, we re always going to be playing catch-up ball. and we re never going to be good enough at it. you have had to have had the experience of being a climate scientist, battling people on the other side, who often are not scientists. what has the experience been like, and what has the effect of this climate denial industry been
and yet i hear that same argument being made from the other side, and they say, well, this is all about getting funding research. that s why all these scientists are buying into the notion of climate change. you re saying the denialists. right. yes. they say it s a gravy train. you would have to posit an unbelievably, unprecedented distributed conspiracy of essentially untold proportions to think that were the case. and in fact, given the fact the amount of money there is on the other side, given the money that fossil fuel companies would love to lavish on any research scientist who is credibly finding dissension from the consensus, there would be a huge market for that. you want to be the individual who could disprove exactly. you would be celebrated, get a lifetime grant, probably, from numerous fossil fuel companies. the fact of the matter is i actually think in some ways we talk about denial, because it s