> You are probably asking questions to which we don't have answers. I've been pleasantly surprised by the qualifications of people who post on Hacker News. Who

> You are probably asking questions to which we don't have answers. I've been pleasantly surprised by the qualifications of people who post on Hacker News. Who knows; perhaps there's a stray immunologist among the visitors. What depresses me quite a bit is that discussions in public forums regarding vaccines never seem to move past a high-school science lesson in physiology and cell biology. Which tends to leave people with a rather superficial understanding of what a vaccine does, yet with a high degree of confidence in that they understand how it works.