Woodford Vaccination Forum
I am just writing a very brief post here because I want to relax a bit this evening but I promised to get these slides up on the website so here goes.
The Woodfordia Vaccination Forum went according to schedule this afternoon. It was standing room only with people sitting in the aisles and standing up all around the back and sides. Stop the AVN paid a lot of money to get an airplane to fly over the venue during the talk towing a banner that said Vaccines Save Lives. I thanked them as soon as I got on stage for the great publicity that led to such a wonderful turn-out. In fact, one person said that they hadn't known anything about the forum but had seen the plane and came along to find out what all the fuss was about. Good job, SAVN!
The talk went very well. Everyone was polite, there was no heckling and I think that everyone - even the immunologist, agreed that vaccinations should not be compulsory. The audience asked some great questions and the vaccination forum was an example of how this issue can and should be aired - in public and with fairness to both sides.
There was a video tape of the whole talk I'm not sure yet how that will be distributed, but I will let you know when I know.
In the meantime, thanks to all of our AVN members who came along to support this forum. I can't tell you how heartening it was to look down into the audience and see your smiling faces looking up during the talk.
Here are the slides - I hope you enjoy them. The references should be clickable too!