--- title: Watch a Science Cop Take on the Anti-Vaccine Movement description: TIME's Science Cop Jeffrey Kulger takes on the misinformation coming from opponents of childhood vaccinations. canonical: https://time.com/3426725/anti-vaccine-science-cop/ author: Jeffrey Kluger article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-24T21:03:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-30T11:36:23.407Z article:section: Science og:title: Watch a Science Cop Take on the Anti-Vaccine Movement og:description: TIME's Science Cop Jeffrey Kulger takes on the misinformation coming from opponents of childhood vaccinations. og:url: https://time.com/3426725/anti-vaccine-science-cop/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0dcf9aa4fbd7cf50/6986a552810bbbb647c93a13/ep3-tout-640.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Getty Images(4): Photo Illustration by TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch a Science Cop Take on the Anti-Vaccine Movement twitter:description: TIME's Science Cop Jeffrey Kulger takes on the misinformation coming from opponents of childhood vaccinations. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0dcf9aa4fbd7cf50/6986a552810bbbb647c93a13/ep3-tout-640.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch a Science Cop Take on the Anti-Vaccine Movement by [Jeffrey Kluger](https://time.com/author/jeffrey-kluger/) and [Michael Lester](https://time.com/author/michael-lester/) Sep 24, 2014 9:03 PM UTC  Getty Images (4); Photo-illustration by TIME by [Jeffrey Kluger](https://time.com/author/jeffrey-kluger/) and [Michael Lester](https://time.com/author/michael-lester/) Sep 24, 2014 9:03 PM UTC Nothing gets the anti-vaccine fringe going quite so much as believing they’ve found a scandal—some bit of gotcha’ proof that the global medical establishment really, truly is covering up a terrible secret about the dangers of vaccines. Recently, this always-vocal but rarely-rational crowd announced that they had what they were looking for, with the [discovery](http://time.com/3208886/whistleblower-claims-cdc-covered-up-data-showing-vaccine-autism-link/) that a comparatively old study had excluded some data suggesting that African-American children who had been vaccinated were slightly likelier than other kids to have developed autism. But again—and always—the anti-vaxxers were wrong, misunderstanding the science, misrepresenting the findings, and recruiting the worst possible person imaginable to argue their wrong-headed case. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3426725/anti-vaccine-science-cop/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3426725/anti-vaccine-science-cop/"},"headline":"Watch a Science Cop Take on the Anti-Vaccine Movement","datePublished":"2014-09-24T21:03:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-30T11:36:23.407Z","description":"\"Again, and always, they're wrong.\"","url":"https://time.com/3426725/anti-vaccine-science-cop/","keywords":["Vaccines","Autism"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0dcf9aa4fbd7cf50/6986a552810bbbb647c93a13/ep3-tout-640.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jeffrey Kluger","jobTitle":"Editor at Large","url":"https://time.com/author/jeffrey-kluger/"},{"@type":"Person","name":"Michael Lester","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/michael-lester/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0dcf9aa4fbd7cf50/6986a552810bbbb647c93a13/ep3-tout-640.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Getty Images(4): Photo Illustration by TIME","caption":"Getty Images(4): Photo Illustration by TIME","creditText":"Getty Images (4); Photo-illustration by TIME","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/vaccines/","name":"Vaccines"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3426725/anti-vaccine-science-cop/","name":"Watch a Science Cop Take on the Anti-Vaccine Movement"}}]}] ```