Having been on the internet talking about bad science for about a year, I had until recently managed to stay away from talking about vaccines. However, I have recently broken my personal rule and talked about vaccines here. I was almost immediately reminded of why I had made such a rule, when I received quite a lot of comments listing a long series of presumably “anti-vaccination” studies (I only approved the ones that contained no foul language and seemed to come from genuine human beings). I decided that having opened the can of worms, I might as well go fishing
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