Comment by wonnage

Other commenters have done a fine job expressing why this napkin math is silly and perhaps in isolated cases this is a good thing, OP probably learned something here

But in aggregate these sorts of comments are annoying as hell on every medical article posted to HN. Now you have to hope a sufficient mass of well-informed commenters is here to rebut them. In the best-case, these comments are simply misguided, but in the worst case it becomes a watering hole for all the antivaxxers and conspiracy theorists on this site to gather