Author Archives: Seth Mnookin

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.)

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Major medical, science organizations prepare letter to TLC about its vaccine fear-mongering

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UPDATE: Sun-Times endorsement of autism quackfest remains online even after editor claims it was “incorrect”

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TLC disappears comments, edits its turd of an anti-vaccine piece. It still stinks.

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More media stupidity: Chicago Sun-Times runs propaganda piece for Jenny McCarthy’s anti-vaccine conference

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Taking stupid to a whole new level: TLC’s entry for the “Worst piece written about vaccines”

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Meandering Mississippi: An early journalism iBook is all wet

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E.O. Wilson’s The Social Conquest of Earth: Sloppy, self-indulgent, & unsophisticated

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Crap futurism, cruftiness, and walled gardens: A Download the Universe roundtable on e-reading

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Bob Sears: Bald-faced liar, devious dissembler, or both?

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