Michael Reagan: “Measles was so rare it was one of those diseases that I feared environmentalists would try to put on the endangered species list. When I was a boy, mother’s used to have an informal measles network. When one child came down with it, the other mothers would rush their kids over to be exposed, so they could get the illness and be done with it. This was also the procedure with chicken pox. But with the development of safe, effective vaccines, measles almost disappeared. I was anticipating a measles exhibition in the Smithsonian to mark the date when it finally vanished, but I didn’t anticipate Jenny McCarthy would stop flaunting her boobs and start preaching to boobs.”