Recent Insolence delivered

• Antivaccine cardiologist Jack Wolfson and the resurrection of false balance about vaccines

  Yesterday, I wrote about false balance in reporting on vaccines in the wake of the Disneyland…

• False balance about vaccines rises from the grave…again

  Imagine, if you will, a time machine capsule going all the way back to the earliest…

• Dr. Oz’s “green coffee bean extract” scammer guest must repay $9 million

  If there’s one aspect of 2014 that I enjoyed, it’s that it was a very bad…

• Quoth Katie Tietje: Stop being mean to non-vaccinators!

  Here we are, into a new week, and the Disneyland measles outbreak continues to grow, the…

• Quackademic medicine tightens its hold on the Cleveland Clinic

  It’s no secret to my regular readers that it’s highly unlikely that I’ll ever be getting…

• “Dr. Bob” Sears: Perfecting the art of the antivaccine dog whistle

  Oh, no, here we go again.
  In fact, before I get started, I feel obligated to show…

• The past and present rebuke antivaccinationists who claim measles is “benign”

  In the wake of antivaccine-pandering pediatrician “Dr. Bob” Sears’ attempt to paint the measles as no…

• Quoth “Dr. Bob” Sears: Poor, poor pitiful me, you stupid people

  Poor, poor, pitiful Dr. Bob.
  For those of you not familiar with him, I’m referring, of course,…

• A tale of two unnecessarily doomed aboriginal girls with leukemia

  I’m depressed and angry as I write this.
  The reason for this is simple. I hate it…

• Bill Maher: Still an antivaccine wingnut after all these years

  It should come as no surprise to anyone here that I consider Bill Maher to be…

• No, the CDC did not just apologize and admit that this year’s flu vaccine doesn’t work, part 2

  It looks like this year’s going to be a bad flu season.
  Hard as it is for…

• The Disneyland measles outbreak continues apace, and a woman refuses quarantine

  Brief Orac follow up note, January 21, 2014: Antivaccine pediatrician “Dr. Bob” Sears responds to his…