Give him a library card

Spokane City Councilman Mike Fagan has no business serving on the Spokane County health board. While his extreme views are merely an annoyance on the City Council, we cannot afford such blatant anti-science views on a board charged with providing for public health.

The views of extremists like Fagan may not seem dangerous on the surface, but they have the power to undo centuries of medical and scientific progress in the human condition. No scientific study has ever linked immunizations to autism, while decades of falling disease rates (until now) prove their efficacy in virtually wiping out numerous diseases. How much polio does Fagan see around?

After removing him from the health board, perhaps the City Council can provide Fagan with a Spokane library card so that he might crack a book or two, and begin to discover the joys of the modern world.

Just make sure he doesn’t have any matches on him while at the library, because he may get frustrated by all the real knowledge available there and go on a burning spree. He seems the type to want to destroy all that he fails to understand.

Doug Burr

Spokane