Yay! We, Beasties!

By sa smith on November 1, 2010.

We filled a big gap at SciBlogs this morning!

See, Orac likes writing about anti-vaxers-- the politics, their methods, etc.
I like writing about anti-vaxers-- but from the vaccine and viruses perspective.

We didnt have anyone here to focus on anti-vaxers from the immune systems perspective (I can, but I really dont like to. The immune system is food and futile, to this HIV-1 researcher).

Until now! Yay!
We, Beasties

Plus, it looks like they will have some sweet micro posts too!

Plus, these guys are friends with Silvia!

Great addition :)

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Aw, shucks :-)

Kevin - that's one wicked cool blog you've got. All it needs now is MOAR LOLSPEAK. ;)

Hopefully another ally for the next outbreak of the germ theory denialism wars!

Cool blog, but now I'm scared of salmonella. Before I wasn't much worried; probly complacent. Now I'm scared :-(

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