In a recent episode of The Skeptics Guide to the Universe Jay pointed out that he didn’t even know what Mumps looked like. This is significant, as a result of the success of vaccines we have forgotten how truly horrifying some of the diseases they prevent can be.  Since there are so many vaccine preventable diseases [...]

I have held off blogging about this case because I wanted to wait until the evidence was in before I started giving my opinion. When I saw the headlines about schoolgirl Natalie Morton dying after receiving the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine initially my thoughts went to the parents and what they must be going [...]