What I wanted to do was build an automobile.
Pneumococcus is a fairly common cause of pneumonia and [raises the] risk of death in older adults.
I've never seen this level of anger at parents who've chosen not to vaccinate their children.
Vaccines are not traditionally big money makers. They're given once or a few times in one's life, so they're never going to be blockbusters.
Today, however, anti-vaccine activists go out of their way to claim that they are not anti-vaccine; they’re pro-vaccine. They just want vaccines to be safer. This is a much softer, less radical, more tolerable message, allowing them greater access to the media. However, because anti-vaccine activists today define safe as free from side effects such as autism, learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, strokes, heart attacks, and blood clots—conditions that aren’t caused by vaccines—safer vaccines, using their definition, can never be made.
For most mothers, vaccinations become a matter of faith - faith in pharmaceutical companies, faith in public health officials - and I think there's been an erosion of faith.
People are reticent to give a newborn the hepatitis B vaccine and often delay it.
Misperceiving that there is one correct choice is a common mistake. Coming to understand that there are usually a few good choices--and then there's the one you pick, commit to, and make great--is the best way to make flexible, optimal, good decisions in life.
How ballsy it was to just assume you know, with one glance, the things another person could live without. As if it was the same for everyone, that simple.
Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
Don't compromise your principles.