Lee Kuhnle

Okay.

Okay.

Well, here's my attempt.

One of the subgenres, of course, of conspiracies is the whole vaccine conspiracies.

They're just, you know, it's one of the things that people are very sure about.

There's some nefarious stuff going on.

There's a lot going on with vaccines, and I'm just going to note one example of it.

And I also get to plug one of the best books on this, which is by Heidi Larson.

It's called Stuck.

If you're interested in any of this kind of stuff, her book is just fantastic about the history of vaccine panics.

So she looks at the HPV vaccine and the responses to it.

So the HPV is human papilloma virus.

Exactly.

And if you can get a vaccine for it, apparently the rates of that cancer drop dramatically.

So a lot of states were rolling, like countries were rolling this out as a kind of state vaccine program.

In Colombia, in 2014, 15 girls are admitted to hospital with numbness in their limbs, dizziness, nausea, trouble walking, things like that.

It starts to spread to other girls in their school.

Within a couple of weeks, it's at about 500 people are being rushed to the emergency room with these weird symptoms.

At first, they think maybe food poisoning, etc., etc., but eventually it comes down to it might have been a reaction to the HPV vaccine that they had received about two months earlier.

Now, again, I'm not an epidemiologist or anything, but all evidence that I have read indicates that there is absolutely no connection to the vaccine that could be made at all.