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Monthly Archives: May 2012
TLC’s vaccine misinformation piece vanishes into the ether. Do they owe readers an explanation? (Also: Chicago Sun-Times endorsement of anti-vaccine conference remains online.) UPDATED
Category: Autism, Media, Vaccines
Tagged Autism News Beat, AutismOne, Chicago Sun-Times, Discovery Communications, Generation Rescue, Jenny McCarthy, Jim Kirk, Ken Reibel, TLC
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Major medical, science organizations prepare letter to TLC about its vaccine fear-mongering
Category: Autism, Media, Vaccines
Tagged American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Physician Assistants, Autism Science Foundation, Every Child By Two, National Association of County and City Health Officials, National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, National Meningitis Association, Oregon Pediatric Society, Parents of Kids with Infectious Diseases, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, TLC, Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
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UPDATE: Sun-Times endorsement of autism quackfest remains online even after editor claims it was “incorrect”
Category: Autism, Media, Quacks, Vaccine safety, Vaccines
Tagged Alisa Alexander, AutismOne, Chicago Sun-Times, Generation Rescue, Jenny McCarthy, Jim Kirk, Jim Romenesko, Wrapports
81 Comments
TLC disappears comments, edits its turd of an anti-vaccine piece. It still stinks.
Category: Autism, Quacks, Vaccine safety, Vaccines
Tagged ADHD, CDC, ethylmercury, FDA, MMR, The Lancet, thimerosal, TLC
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More media stupidity: Chicago Sun-Times runs propaganda piece for Jenny McCarthy’s anti-vaccine conference
Category: Autism, Vaccines
Tagged Andrew Wakefield, AutismOne, Chicago Sun-Times, David Geier, Jenny McCarthy, Mark Geier, TLC
34 Comments
Taking stupid to a whole new level: TLC’s entry for the “Worst piece written about vaccines”
Category: Autism, Quacks, Vaccine safety, Vaccines
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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