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Here we go again: The vile tactic of blaming shaken baby syndrome on vaccines, part 3

oracknows | November 4, 2014

I was a bit angry yesterday. I’m never happy when I see the overarching narrative that prescientific and pseudoscientific beliefs are equivalent and worth doing clinical trials on them. But the irritation I feel when I see examples of journalists credulously swallowing that narrative whole and regurgitating it in mainstream publications like the Wall Street Journal is nothing compared to the anger that is provoked when I see one of the worst antivaccine lies of all being promulgated by a person known for promoting it. The person is Christina England. The tactic is trying to blame the…

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