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sethmnookin: Agree 100%. “@PeteAbe: Maybe it'll work out. But hate that idea. He's finally swinging well, let him swing.”
EmilyAnthes: HA! (Also: Sad.) RT @Sci_Phile "Homeopaths Without Borders" should be called "Visitors Without Medicine" http://t.co/kXPg8M76hW
TravisSaunders: Full text of very cool new paper posted to the #SBRN website http://t.co/vsrF3kuDB2
hillaryrosner: @MattLuizza My pleasure. Like the use of the Twitter training. :)
stevesilberman: WaPo's @jrubinblogger thinks the phrase "Media Matters" is magic GOP fairy dust that makes facts untrue. http://t.co/wNUGtfLeQF
daniel_lende: How Psychiatry Went Crazy http://t.co/lHPeYZ0Edd Good overview of DSM 5 and two of its chief critics
mfenner: Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior. Scary paper in March PNAS http://t.co/UavkFtDMpZ
MrEpid: Little kid in Kanata see me in my @DAlfredsson11 jersey, says to mom "Mom look it's a hockey player! Go Sens Go!" #icantevenskate
BethSkw: RT @susanorlean: I didn't write much this week but I worried a lot about writing. That counts, doesn't it?
Jason_Reads: Enjoy: angry amazon reviews of adorable dog costumes: http://t.co/Ayycpke1LP
jeancflanagan: Just watched “The Revisionaries” on Netflix - a look at the people behind the culture wars in the Texas Board of Education.
Category Archives: Vaccine safety
UPDATE: Sun-Times endorsement of autism quackfest remains online even after editor claims it was “incorrect”
Category: Autism, Media, Quacks, Vaccine safety
Tagged Alisa Alexander, AutismOne, Chicago Sun-Times, Generation Rescue, Jenny McCarthy, Jim Kirk, Jim Romenesko, Wrapports
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TLC disappears comments, edits its turd of an anti-vaccine piece. It still stinks.
Category: Autism, Quacks, Vaccine safety
Tagged ADHD, CDC, ethylmercury, FDA, MMR, The Lancet, thimerosal, TLC
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Taking stupid to a whole new level: TLC’s entry for the “Worst piece written about vaccines”
Category: Autism, Quacks, Vaccine safety
Tagged " Mary McCarthy, "How Stuff Works, Bob Sears, CDC, flu vaccine, Institute of Medicine, Lillian Hellman, MMR, thimerosal, TLC, typhoid vaccine
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SciWriteLabs #6: BMJ editor Fiona Godlee on the Wakefield-MMR fiasco, the problems with peer review, and research oversight boards
Category: Media, Science, SciWriteLabs, Vaccine safety
Tagged Andrew Wakefield, Ben Goldacre, Brian Deer, British Medical Journal, Daily Mail, David Lewis, Ingvar Bjarnason, measles, Melanie Phillips, MMR, Molecular Pathology, nature, Pace University, paul offit, Peer review, Private Eye, research oversight boards, Richard Horton, Royal Free Hospital, The Lancet, The Panic Virus, University College London
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Parents and pediatricians: Do you think a pre-natal discussion about vaccines would help assuage fears?
Category: Autism, Health care, Vaccine safety
Tagged 9/11, Andrew Wakefield, California, Connecticut, Dublin, Ireland, measles, MMR, New York, ob-gyns, pediatricians, The Panic Virus, The Washington Post, truthers, whooping cough
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Apparently, Rob Schneider thinks ALL CAPS is a substitute for having a clue: A lower-cased, fact-based rebuttal
Posted: July 18, 2012