When browsing the op-ed pieces of The Washington Post, I decided that one article really stood out to me. It was entitled, "On Vaccines, Immune to Reason," by Paul Howard. This article contains information that would be something that I would really like to use as my research topic. It discusses vaccines and how parents have lost faith in childhood vaccines and must regain that faith.

This topic is a big deal for me, because I wrote a medical research paper my senior year of high school about the vaccine called Gardisil, that it meant to prevent most cases of cervical cancer in women. The research was so interesting and vaccines are made to help people. Plus, I am majoring in Biology now, and while my interests in the field vary greatly, I am looking at the possibility of medicinal research as a career.

The topic is important because the mortality of children has greatly decreased in the United States since the 1950's because of the new vaccines and medicines and our country has to keep it that way. Also, there are so many children in third world countries that need these vaccines.

People should understand that vaccines are good and that if education were to increase on the functions and pros of vaccines, the acceptance level would greatly increase.