On why misogynists shouldn't mess with the Goddess...
Category: Autism
The Goddess is displeased with the founder of the anti-vaccine crank group Generation Rescue.
Posted by Orac at 1:00 PM • 13 Comments •
Respectful Insolence
"A statement of fact cannot be insolent." The miscellaneous ramblings of a surgeon/scientist on medicine, quackery, science, pseudoscience, history, and pseudohistory (and anything else that interests him)
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Orac is the nom de blog of a (not so) humble pseudonymous surgeon/scientist with an ego just big enough to delude himself that someone, somewhere might actually give a rodent's posterior about his miscellaneous verbal meanderings, but just barely small enough to admit to himself that few will. (Continued here, along with a DISCLAIMER that you should read before reading any medical discussions here.)
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While I'm back on the topic of vaccines....
Category: Medicine
The story of a New York pediatrician and the effects of the anti-vaccine movement.
Posted by Orac at 6:04 AM • 31 Comments •
The anti-vaccine war on science: An epidemic of fear
Category: Medicine
Many have been the times over the last five years that I've called out bad journalism about medicine in general and vaccines in particular, especially the coverage of the discredited notion that vaccines or mercury in vaccines somehow was responsible...
Posted by Orac at 12:00 AM • 162 Comments •
When you dismiss every scientific study, you open the door to believing anything
Category: Medicine
In search of the perfect funding source, and they all fall short. So what can we believe?
Posted by Orac at 8:00 AM • 62 Comments •
Pertussis returns in states with lax vaccination laws
Category: Medicine
A three year old study is just as relevant today.
Posted by Orac at 12:00 PM • 38 Comments •
Dumbest comment ever?
Category: Antivaccination lunacy
A photon torpedo of stupid nearly destroys the starship Orac.
Posted by Orac at 9:00 PM • 98 Comments •
Complain to CBS: CBS resident anti-vaccine propagandist Sharyl Attkisson sucks up to anti-vaccine pseudoscientist Andrew Wakefield
Category: Medicine
Antivaccine propagandist Sharyl Attkisson strikes again.
Posted by Orac at 12:00 AM • 23 Comments •
Some monkey business in autism research, 2009 edition
Category: Medicine
Everything old is new again among the antivaccine movement. This time, it's more monkey business in the form of a dubious study.
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 42 Comments •
Cries the antivaccinationist: Why are we injecting TOXINS into our babies? (revisited)
Category: Medicine
Alright, I think I got the whole Maher/Dawkins thing out of my system for now. True, given the highly annoying reaction of one reader, I was half-tempted to write yet another post on the whole fiasco just out of spite,...
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 176 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Autism quackery in my second hometown
Category: Medicine
My first hometown, as many readers of this blog know, is Detroit, where I spent the first ten years or so of my life. My second hometown, as I pointed out a while back when a particularly loony city council...
Posted by Orac at 12:00 AM • 74 Comments •
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