Absolutely. Senior classes were small and most were aspiring vets/grad students wanting to brown nose by talking to him after class (including my girlfriend at the time). I knew I wasn't doing anything with that degree after graduation and just arrived, got a credit, and left. He eventually noticed and called me out assuming I was just a straggler coming to my girlfriend's class with her every day.

But he spoke one-on-one in such layman's terms that you felt like you understood what he was talking about without feeling like you were being talked down to. A really brilliant guy. The fact that he's calling this vaccine out shows how principled he is in his research. And if he was in anyway unqualified to be making these statements the media/university/government would have crucified him by now.