Find Us on Facebook
-
Recent Posts
- Today at 3pm: A live-chat with “Scatter, Adapt, and Remember” author/io9 editor Annalee Newitz
- Credibility in the Age of Twitter: A Town Hall on the Marathon Bombing this Wednesday at the Nieman Foundation
- Upcoming: Nate Silver and I talk politics, baseball, and more
- New York Times with most detailed account yet of MIT’s role in Swartz case
@sethmnookin on Twitter
Multi Twitter
sethmnookin: #MIT Gas leak 5 Cambridge Center; Main Street between Ames & Hayward streets evacuated. More info: http://t.co/0mBwgYnsTO
2 hours ago
yo_thanland (Than's Stellarbot): RT @sethmnookin: The @Reuters_Health on pertussis vac was about @AmerAcadPeds study http://t.co/TsMG0eoCun not @JAMA_current http://t.co/Dg…
44 minutes ago
bellasmommy808 (Isabella's Mommy): RT @sethmnookin: Read: @maiasz powerful piece on how diagnoses she got (bipolar, OCD) & ones she didn't (Asperger's) illo probs w/DSM: http…
44 minutes agovlynpowell (Lyn Powell): RT @sethmnookin: Awesome. “@anildash: True fact: Madonna is 3 years older than Rue McClanahan was when The Golden Girls started.”
44 minutes ago
erichhuang (Erich S. Huang): RT @MishaAngrist: Nice story on media coverage of autism and vaccines...more @sethmnookin might've made it even better http://t.co/XdJqvQ6i…
44 minutes ago
ceciliatan (Cecilia Tan): RT @sethmnookin: For recent research on acellular/whole cell pertussis vaccines, here's a nice Arthur Allen overview in @ScienceNOW http:/…
44 minutes ago
aarongraves (Aaron Graves): RT @sethmnookin: #MIT Gas leak 5 Cambridge Center; Main Street between Ames & Hayward streets evacuated. More info: http://t.co/0mBwgYnsTO
44 minutes ago
powered by Incbrite Wordpress PluginsRecent Comments
- Twyla on Credibility in the Age of Twitter: A Town Hall on the Marathon Bombing this Wednesday at the Nieman Foundation
- Monique on The latest claims of “proof” that vaccines cause autism: Will the media take the bait?
- Noeleen on Credibility in the Age of Twitter: A Town Hall on the Marathon Bombing this Wednesday at the Nieman Foundation
- Chris on The whole cell pertussis vaccine, media malpractice, and the long-term effects of avoiding difficult conversations
- R.A.Winter on Credibility in the Age of Twitter: A Town Hall on the Marathon Bombing this Wednesday at the Nieman Foundation
Category Archives: Public health
Bob Sears: Bald-faced liar, devious dissembler, or both?
Category: Public health, Quacks, Vaccines
Tagged Andrew Wakefield, Bob Sears, Huffington Post, measles, Orange County Register, San Diego, This American Life
20 Comments
Autism roundtable, part 2
Category: Autism, Media, Public health
Leave a comment
Autism roundtable, Part I: Angry parents, disability rights, and living in a neurotypical world
Category: Autism, Media, Public health, science
Tagged Amy Harmon, Apple, applied behavioral analysis, Ari Ne'eman, Asperger syndrome, autism cults, Autism Diva, Autistic Self Advocacy Network, Defeat Autism Now!, DSM, Grateful Dead, iPad, Jenny McCarthy, John Elder Robison, Kristina Chew, Left Brain/Right Brain, Loving Lampposts, Lydia Brown, Neurotribes, Paul Collins, Ralph James Savarese, Shannon Des Roches Rosa, Steve Silberman, Temple Grandin, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, The Panic Virus, The Thinking Person's Guide to Autism, Todd Drezner, Tom Lehrer, vaccines
25 Comments
Has the Huffington Post embraced science & closed the door on anti-vaccine quackery?
Category: Autism, Media, Public health, science, Vaccines
Tagged David Kirby, Huffington Post, Jay Gordon, Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey, Kim Stagliano, Orac, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Scientific American
46 Comments
“The risk that watching ABC News will cause your head to explode can’t be ruled out.”
Category: Journalism, Media, Public health
Tagged ABC News, British Medical Journal, cancer, cellphones, scare mongering, Tara Parker-Pope, The New York Times
3 Comments
Michelle Bachmann: Public health spokeswoman, Rick Perry strategist, partisan peace-maker
Category: Politics, Public health, Vaccines
Tagged Erick Erickson, Fox News, Gardasil, Greta Van Susteren, HPV, Kirsten Powers, Merck, Michael Specter, Michelle Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Mother Jones, NBC, New Yorker, RedState, Rick Perry, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Rolling Stone, Rush Limbaugh, Salon.com, The Daily Beast, The Today Show, Time, Wall Street Journal
1 Comment









Apparently, Rob Schneider thinks ALL CAPS is a substitute for having a clue: A lower-cased, fact-based rebuttal
Posted: July 18, 2012