Fool House Rock: How Measles Is Making a Comeback

"People love stories that confirm their suspicions..."

From The New York Times Opinion, this animated video features a conversation between the characters "Measles", who is trapped inside a test tube at the United States (US) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and her wise buddy "Polio". Measles sets out on an adventure to "go viral" and infect Americans. Her quest is eased by the fact that there are many parents who subscribe to logical fallacies that deny science and the success of vaccinations (including "confirmation bias", the "perfectionist fallacy", "confusing correlation with causation", and a "slippery slope argument"). Will Measles be victorious?

Editor's note: The video's title brings to mind Schoolhouse Rock!, an American interstitial programming series of animated musical educational short films (and later, videos) that originally aired during the Saturday morning children's programming block on the US television network ABC from 1973 to 1985.