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Category Archives: Vaccine safety
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
16 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
48 Comments
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, Vaccines
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
19 Comments
Parents and pediatricians: Do you think a pre-natal discussion about vaccines would help assuage fears?
Category: Autism, Health care, Public health, Vaccine safety, Vaccines
Tagged 9/11, Andrew Wakefield, California, Connecticut, Dublin, Ireland, measles, MMR, New York, ob-gyns, pediatricians, The Panic Virus, The Washington Post, truthers, whooping cough
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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