Category Archives: The Panic Virus

We interrupt this extended absence: Tonight only, The Panic Virus at Skeptics in the Pub, Harvard Square

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: December 10, 2012

Category: Appearances, The Panic Virus, Vaccines | Tagged Boston Skeptics, Harvard Square, Tommy Doyle's | 1 Comment

The whole cell pertussis vaccine, media malpractice, and the long-term effects of avoiding difficult conversations

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: September 13, 2012

Category: Health care, Media, pertussis, Public health, The Panic Virus, Vaccine safety, Vaccines | Tagged Amanda Schaffer, Barbara Loe Fisher, DTaP, DTP, DTP: Vaccine Roulette, Lea Thompson, National Vaccine Information Center, New England Journal of Medicine, Slate | 17 Comments

SciWriteLabs 7.2: The New York Times’s Amy Harmon on what it means to be a science writer

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: January 11, 2012

Category: Autism, Journalism, SciWriteLabs, The New York Times, The Panic Virus | Tagged academic journals, Amy Harmon, Amy Wallace, Asperger syndrome, Boston, Catherine Lord, CDC, DNA, Eric Courchesne, Eric Fombonne, footnotes, Fred Volkmar, Gardner Museum, Gerald Fishbach, Jack Robison, Kevin Pelphrey, Kirsten Lindsmith, Los Angeles Times, Marianne English, McGill University, Michael Specter, MIT, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, NIMH, Simons Foundation, technology, The New Yorker, UC-San Diego Autism Center of Excellence, vaccines, Vanity Fair, Wired, Yale School of Medicine, Yale's Neuroscience Laboratory | 4 Comments

SciWriteLabs 7.1: The New York Times’s Amy Harmon on neurodiversity and writing about autism

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: January 6, 2012

Category: Autism, Journalism, SciWriteLabs, The New York Times, The Panic Virus | Tagged Amy Harmon, Asperger syndrome, David Wolman, Jack Robison, John Elder Robison, Kirsten Lindsmith, Look Me In the Eye, neurodiversity, neurology, Steve Silberman, Twitter, Wired | 5 Comments

The Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism Q/A

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: January 2, 2012

Category: Media, The Panic Virus | Tagged NVICP, ob-gyns, Shannon Des Roches Rosa, Steve Silberman, The Thinking Person's Guide to Autism, Vaccine Court, VAERS | 6 Comments

Context and corrections in writing about autism and vaccines: A case study in misleading your readers

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: December 30, 2011

Category: Autism, Journalism, The New York Times, The Panic Virus, Vaccine safety, Vaccines | Tagged AAP, AMA, American Association of Physicians and Surgeons, Barack Obama, David Geier, flu vaccine, Fluttershy, Jack Robison, JAMA, John Birch Society, Kat Stoeffel, Kirsten Lindsmith, Mark Geier, Marketwatch, Mussolini, My Little Pony, New York Observer, The Tuscaloosa News, The Wall Street Journal, Twilight Sparkle, Wal-Mart | 36 Comments

Get your free copy of The Panic Virus (and check out the National Press Foundation’s Vaccine Webinar, too!)

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: November 22, 2011

Category: Housekeeping, Media, The Panic Virus, Vaccines | Tagged National Press Foundation, Nigeria, Peg Willingham, The UN Foundation | Leave a comment

Evidence, herd immunity, and ‘total assholes’

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: May 6, 2011

Category: Hib, pertussis, The Panic Virus, Vaccines | Tagged American University, Ashland Oregon, Bob Sears, Danielle Romaguera, Declan Fahy, Frontline, Jay Gordon, Julieanna Metcalf, Kelly Lacek, Oprah Winfrey, Toni and David McCaffery, Total assholes | 145 Comments

Lessons from the shaming of chemically castrating doc who “endangers autistic children and exploits their parents”

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: May 4, 2011

Category: Autism, excerpt, Media, The Panic Virus, Vaccines | Tagged Andrew Wakefield, AutismOne, David Geier, David Kirby, Kathleen Seidel, Left Brain/Right Brain, lupron, Mark Geier, Maryland, Oprah Winfrey, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Robert MacNeil, Sullivan, Trine Tsouderos | 22 Comments