Antivaccination lunacy:
I've written time and time again about how antivaccinationists go out of their way to try to reassure us that they really, truly are not "antivaccine" or even that they support vaccination. Of course, such disclaimers are often nothing more...
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Posted on July 3, 2008 12:30 PM • 43 Comments
In the eyes, of anti-vaccine advocates, vaccines bear the brunt of blame for a variety of conditions, including autism, asthma, neurodevelopmental disorders, autoimmune disorders and a wide variety others. Often this link is based on retrospective data, in which parents...
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Posted on July 2, 2008 9:00 AM • 8 Comments
Before there was angry, "warrior mom" antivaccinationist Jenny, there was the kindler, gentler Indigo Jenny.
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Posted on June 27, 2008 9:00 AM • 52 Comments
It's rare that the mainstream media gets it right about vaccines and autism, and when they do I feel obligated to point it out. Such is the case with Sam Wang's article The Autism Myth Lives On. It's well worth...
Posted on June 26, 2008 12:00 AM • 13 Comments
Clifford J. Shoemaker: A legal thug sanctioned!
Posted on June 24, 2008 2:02 PM • 19 Comments
I could resist a brief mention of this. Remember yesterday's post, when I discussed how EpiWonk had deconstructed and demolished David Kirby's latest mangling of epidemiology and willful misreading of government reports? Apparently it had an effect. It would appear...
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Posted on June 22, 2008 10:55 AM • 87 Comments
At this stage of the game, I almost feel sorry for David Kirby. Think about it. He's made his name and what little fame he has (which isn't much outside of the tinhat crowd that thinks the guv'mint is intentionally...
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Posted on June 21, 2008 10:35 AM • 66 Comments
Captured by the forces of woo?
Posted on June 20, 2008 2:15 PM • 20 Comments
Color me unimpressed. As I mentioned last week, that opportunist who has apparently become a paid shill for the hardcore antivaccination movement (namely Generation Rescue, Autism Research Institute, National Autism Association, Coalition for SAFE MINDS, and Talk About Curing Autism,...
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Posted on June 18, 2008 2:00 PM • 37 Comments
The other day, in response to several e-mails asking me about the latest bit of bad science and epidemiology purporting to support the idea that mercury in the thimerosal preservative that used to be in many childhood vaccines is a...
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Posted on June 17, 2008 12:00 AM • 2 Comments
Several people have been sending me either links to this paper or even the paper itself: Young HA, Geier DA, Geier MR. (2008). Thimerosal exposure in infants and neurodevelopmental disorders: An assessment of computerized medical records in the Vaccine Safety...
Posted on June 15, 2008 9:30 AM • 10 Comments
Some of you may have heard of John Scudamore's Whale.to site. I've referred to it in the past as a repository of some of the wildest and most bizarre "alternative" medicine claims out there. However, I will admit that I've...
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Posted on June 14, 2008 10:25 AM • 50 Comments
One of the most common aspects of any good conspiracy theory is that "they" know about it but are covering it up, "they" usually being the government. Usually, the "evidence" that "they" know consists third- or fourth-hand unverifiable stories from...
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Posted on June 12, 2008 3:00 PM • 43 Comments
Fellow skeptical doc PalMD informs me that apparently a new blogger, who happens to be a law student at NYU, discovered that his school had invited antivaccinationist-apologist supreme, David Kirby, to speak at NYU on June 26. In response, antivaccinationists,...
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Posted on June 11, 2008 2:00 PM • 17 Comments
What is it about celebrities and antivaccination pseudoscience?
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Posted on June 11, 2008 12:00 AM • 18 Comments
Remember how I warned citizens of the U.K. about an impending visit to their fair island by American apologist for antivaccinationist nonsense and his invitation to give a briefing at Parliament? Apparently, the whole thing was very--shall we say?--underwhelming. The...
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Posted on June 9, 2008 12:00 AM • 36 Comments
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