Autism:
...because that author of
the book that fueled the rise of the mercury militia, that indefatigable purveyor of bad science, logical fallacies and bizarre speculations, that useful idiot that antivaccinationists all know and love is coming to the U.K next month.
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Posted on May 14, 2008 4:45 PM • 10 Comments
Not you too, Bill!
Posted on May 12, 2008 10:31 PM • 36 Comments
Oh, no! Phil Plait did a great post on why vaccines do not cause autism. What's his reward? To be invaded by antivaccinationists! I think you all know what to do. Please, go lend Phil some tactical air support, and...
Posted on May 12, 2008 3:00 PM • 24 Comments
Hypocrisy and violent rhetoric from antivaccinationists? Who'd have thought it?
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Posted on May 12, 2008 2:31 PM • 34 Comments
"Detoxification." Whenever I hear that term, I'm at least 90% certain that I'm dealing with seriously unscientific woo. The reason should be obvious to longtime readers of this blog or to anyone who has followed "alternative medicine" for a while,...
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Posted on May 12, 2008 9:00 AM • 13 Comments
...a fatally incompetent "integrative" physician has been unleashed upon you.
Posted on May 7, 2008 4:10 PM • 9 Comments
Longtime readers of this blog probably remember the tragic case of Abubakar Tariq Nadama, the five-year-old autistic boy who died as a result of being treated with chelation therapy three years ago by Dr. Roy Kerry, an otolaryngologist who had...
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Posted on May 7, 2008 9:00 AM • 23 Comments
Ambulance chaser lawyer Clifford Shoemaker gives up his vaccine lawsuit against Bayer. So what was up with all those subpoenas?
Posted on May 3, 2008 1:37 AM • 10 Comments
Over the last few years, depressingly, we've witnessed a rise in antivaccinationist activism. Beginning with the highly unethical activities of Andrew Wakefield and his bogus study in 1998 that set off a scare over the MMR vaccine supposedly causing autism...
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Posted on May 2, 2008 3:00 PM • 59 Comments
It's late, and I'm working on tomorrow's installment of Your Friday Dose of Woo; so I don't have the time to give this particularly dumb guest editorial Think twice before you vaccinate your child in the Winona Daily News, which...
Posted on May 2, 2008 1:24 AM • 27 Comments
Mercury from coal burning power plants is linked to autism. Except when it's not.
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Posted on May 1, 2008 11:30 AM • 35 Comments
Finally, a counterattack in the book wars against antivaccinationists!
Posted on May 1, 2008 8:02 AM • 53 Comments
The North Carolina Board of Medical Examiners may finally have stopped autism chelator Dr. Rashid Buttar, but Dr. Buttar's case highlights a huge problem with our system of regulating physician practice in the U.S. It's a problem that needs to be fixed.
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Posted on April 29, 2008 9:00 AM • 15 Comments
Over the weekend there was a very good article in the Concord Monitor about Kathleen Seidel and her legal battle with Clifford Shoemaker, whose intrusive "fishing expedition" subpoena recently drew condemnation even from prominent antivaccination activists such as David Kirby...
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Posted on April 28, 2008 9:00 AM • 34 Comments
The North Carolina Board of Medical Examiners, after many years, finally takes action against Dr. Rashid Buttar. Hopefully, the citizens of North Carolina will be protected from Dr. Buttar's dubious treatments for cancer. Sadly, the same can't be said about his dubious autism treatments, but at least the Board also barred him from treating children.
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Posted on April 26, 2008 11:45 AM • 17 Comments
The trifecta of credulity towards antivaccinationist claims is now complete as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton join John McCain in pandering to the antivaccinationist fringe.
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Posted on April 22, 2008 5:35 PM • 66 Comments
Orac is the nom de blog of a 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.)
