Why people ignore vaccine denialists
Category: Antivaccination lunacy
Posted by Orac at 11:00 AM • 14 Comments •
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Antivaccination lunacy:
A dose of H1N1 flu anti-woo
Category: Medicine
In which bloggers pontificate about H1N1...
Posted by Orac at 1:00 PM • 88 Comments •
Bill Maher flames out in a pyre of stupidity over vaccines--again
Category: Entertainment/culture
Bill Maher removes all doubt that he's an antivaccinationist.
Posted by Orac at 6:00 AM • 190 Comments •
Hmmm. Maybe I fell for Obama's liberofascist plot to poison me...
Category: Humor
Posted by Orac at 3:00 AM • 33 Comments •
One more rebuttal to Brownlee and Lenzer's disingenuous Atlantic article
Category: Medicine
Stick a fork in Brownlee and Lenzer and their H1N1 article in The Atlantic. They're done.
Posted by Orac at 4:15 PM • 41 Comments •
24 hours later...
Category: Medicine
...not autistic yet, but not blogging, either.
Posted by Orac at 10:00 AM • 136 Comments •
It's about time...
Category: Medicine
Time to line up to protect myself.
Posted by Orac at 12:00 AM • 169 Comments •
Idiotic comment of the week
Category: Blog housekeeping
In a nod to fellow ScienceBlogger Ed Brayton, with his hilarious Dumbass Quote of the Day, I hereby inaugurate the "Idiotic Comment of the Week," culled from this very blog. I don't guarantee that I'll do it every week, but...
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 181 Comments •
Desiree Jennings "cured" of her "vaccine-induced dystonia"?
Category: Medicine
Remember how I promised that I'd do my next installment of my blogging Suzanne Somers' pile of idiocy, namely her own book, before the end of the week? Plans change, and neurons melt, which they did in response to reading...
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 573 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
An Age of Autism commenter destroys yet another irony meter
Category: Medicine
riley'smom is very unhappy with Amy Wallace: I wrote Ms. Wallace a private email. I intentionally wrote it directly to her private email and DID NOT post it in the comments section of Wired Mag. I asked her about her...
Posted by Orac at 12:00 AM • 54 Comments •
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