Vaccine-related links

My vaccine pages

• Analysis of Anti-Vax Graphs - Also available (and far more nicely formatted) at the VicSkeptics website.
• Herd Immunity Simulator

Selected posts of mine in reply to the AVN blog

• Vaccination backlash - Explaining Meryl's mistake with statistics, and explaining why outbreaks often leave more vaccinated people infected than unvaccinated.
• True Colours - About how the immune system works, and Punter's erroneous black and white view of it.
• Intellectual Dishonesty? - About Dr Obomsawin's deceptive graphs.
• Dr Obomsawin responds - Another post about Dr Obomsawin's deceptive graphs.

Replies to me requiring a response on the AVN blog

• Vaccinations saved us from…what, exactly? - Greg Beattie provides a few references that I need to read. graphs.
• Lies, damned lies and statistics - Article about how many doctors' diagnoses of measles are found to be wrong when subsequent saliva tests are done.
• True Colours - Lengthy debate not really going anywhere. Punter's previous post also currently unreplied to I think.

Quotes from Punter on the AVN blog

• Exaggerations - Re science: "I understand it better than every single one of your skeptic friends"
• Exaggerations - "I know absolutely everything there is to know about your beliefs and the foundation (or lack thereof) for them. You know absolutely nothing about mine"

Images of viruses infecting cells

• The Virus that Cures - Watch video too. See 9:48 - 11:00.
• BACTERIOPHAGES — Viruses of Bacteria
• DNA: The Stuff of Inheritance
• Bacteriophage T4 Virus
• Imaging Molecules & Atoms
• Scientists Unravel Critical Genetic Puzzle For Flu Virus Replication
• Video of HIV infecting a cell

Other relevant links

• Easy to read into to immune system
• Andrew Wakefield faked his data - Contrary to Wakefield's paper, some of his cases displayed developmental problems before they were vaccinated, and others had no autism at all.
• Andrew Wakefield faked his data - More detail about Wakefield's study.
• Optogenetics - Video about using light to trigger neurons in certain ways. Of relevance here as a virus is used to deliver genetic changes by infecting neurons. How do the anti-germ-theory people explain such techniques?
• Designing More Effective Anti-HIV Antibodies - Explains why HIV antibodies are ineffective at combatting the virus.