Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

I work in pharmaceutical research (human drug/vaccine) trials and I completely agree with you.

I am currently working with clinical sites on an HPV vaccine and some of the bullshit on DU regarding the HPV vaccines is totally annoying.

I worked as a microbiology supervisor in the pediatric setting years ago and we would see entire families come down with pertussis. Not only should infants be vaccinated against pertussis but older children and adults. During my tenure in that setting we say a tremendous amount of spinal meningitis. This was just before the pediatric vaccines started rolling out. There were some excellent scientific articles from Australia in the late 80's showing adults with chronic bronchitis were highly associated with pertussis.

I currently work for a pharmaceutical company which has a large vaccine group but in my training class there was someone who was an anti-vaxer. He actually found a pediatric group in Minneapolis who supported his views and none of his children have been vaccinated. When I heard that I had to leave the table because I got so angry at his stupidity and inability to protect his children.