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sethmnookin: Somehow, I ended up watching Person of Interest tonight, which was surprisingly nervewracking.
EmilyAnthes: Amen. "Wolf Blitzer and other journalists should leave God out of natural disasters." http://t.co/BlkoAqsOlU Great piece.
TravisSaunders: @kevinmilligan @mattyglesias From your lips to @NatureMagazine's ears
hillaryrosner: Bizarre. RT @wunderground: Tornado Warning for Columbia and Dutchess Counties in NY until 6:00 PM EDT http://t.co/w5nDsnhDWQ
stevesilberman: USGS page on tonight's 8.2 Russian quake. http://t.co/ijE7fgES33
daniel_lende: RT @Dirk57: Addiction is not a typical disease, nor a simple matter of choice. Maybe "disease model" should become "biochemical model."
mfenner: RT @Klortho: Just discovered: list of Federal government open source projects - there are *lots*! http://t.co/gdMwNToTMl #opengov #wheres…
MrEpid: @Moirabrowne @queensu You gave a convocation speech? Cool!!! #twittercelebrity
BethSkw: RT @Mammals_Suck: I couldn't take the media coverage of #NeanderthalWeaning so I did this: http://t.co/Jih5yTQSSt
Jason_Reads: RT @theferocity: I just wrote a short essay for @BuzzFeedLGBT -- "No, Boy Scouts of America: 'Tolerance' Isn't Enough" http://t.co/s0srtE0t…
jeancflanagan: @hildabast tell me how it goes! I planned on it but had to much work.
Blog Archives
More media stupidity: Chicago Sun-Times runs propaganda piece for Jenny McCarthy’s anti-vaccine conference
Category: Autism
Tagged Andrew Wakefield, AutismOne, Chicago Sun-Times, David Geier, Jenny McCarthy, Mark Geier, TLC
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Bob Sears: Bald-faced liar, devious dissembler, or both?
Category: Quacks
Tagged Andrew Wakefield, Bob Sears, Huffington Post, measles, Orange County Register, San Diego, This American Life
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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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ABC News lies to readers, pretends 2009 news story on vaccines was written last week.
Category: Journalism, Media
Tagged ABC News, Andrew Wakefield, Emily Main, FDA, Liza Gross, Michelle Bachmann, PLoS Biology, Rick Bragg, Rodale, The New York Times, thimerosal
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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