I'm sure I sound insane, but I am convinced that "progress" is never going to come from government action. However, war and disease do have a pretty good track record for pushing civilization on to new heights. Death is unavoidable, and when we try to avoid it, things don't always go well.
I have no problem with the basic childhood vaccines that I received but have no interest in getting vaccinated against something that might or might not cause me some discomfort later in life.
As far as lifespans are concerned, I think the stats are mostly crap. In my genealogy research I’m finding lots of males in my family were living well into their 70s and 80s back into the 1500s. (before vaccinations) Females tended to die younger mostly because they spent so much of their lives pregnant. Children were the hardest hit but they didn’t have the benefit of our basic childhood vaccines OR any other modern hygiene or medicine.
As far as the title of the article is concerned it sounds like something that would ooze out of the mouth of Alan Greyson.