--- title: Penn and Teller Versus the Anti-Vaxxers description: The anti-vaccine crazies should watch this mildly obscene Penn and Teller clip. If hard science won't persuade them, perhaps rubber balls, bowling pins and humor... canonical: https://time.com/54369/penn-and-teller-vaccines/ author: Jeffrey Kluger article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-08T22:51:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:53:56.262Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Watch Penn and Teller Smack Down the Anti-Vaccine Crazies og:description: The anti-vaccine crazies should watch this mildly obscene Penn and Teller clip. If hard science won't persuade them, perhaps rubber balls, bowling pins and humor... og:url: https://time.com/54369/penn-and-teller-vaccines/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Penn and Teller Smack Down the Anti-Vaccine Crazies twitter:description: The anti-vaccine crazies should watch this mildly obscene Penn and Teller clip. If hard science won't persuade them, perhaps rubber balls, bowling pins and humor... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Video: Penn and Teller Versus the Anti-Vaxxers  by [Jeffrey Kluger](https://time.com/author/jeffrey-kluger/)  ## Jeffrey Kluger Editor at Large Apr 8, 2014 10:51 PM UTC  by [Jeffrey Kluger](https://time.com/author/jeffrey-kluger/)  ## Jeffrey Kluger Editor at Large Apr 8, 2014 10:51 PM UTC The anti-vaccine crazies should watch this mildly obscene Penn and Teller clip. If hard science won’t persuade them, perhaps rubber balls, bowling pins and humor will. The world has tried everything else. Penn and Teller Versus the Anti-Vaxxers ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/54369/penn-and-teller-vaccines/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/54369/penn-and-teller-vaccines/"},"headline":"Video: Penn and Teller Versus the Anti-Vaxxers","datePublished":"2014-04-08T22:51:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:53:56.262Z","description":"The anti-vaccine crazies should watch this mildly obscene Penn and Teller clip. If hard science won't persuade them, perhaps rubber balls, bowling pins and humor...","url":"https://time.com/54369/penn-and-teller-vaccines/","keywords":["Vaccines","anti-vaxxers"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jeffrey Kluger","jobTitle":"Editor at Large","url":"https://time.com/author/jeffrey-kluger/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"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/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/vaccines/","name":"Vaccines"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/54369/penn-and-teller-vaccines/","name":"Video: Penn and Teller Versus the Anti-Vaxxers"}}]}] ```