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

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: July 18, 2012

Category: Comments, Health care, Public health, Vaccine safety, Vaccines | Tagged Andrew Wakefield, celebrities, Louise Kuo Habakus, measles, quacks, Rob Schneider, The Huffington Post, Txchnologist, vaccines | 128 Comments

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

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: May 15, 2012

Category: Autism, Vaccines | Tagged Andrew Wakefield, AutismOne, Chicago Sun-Times, David Geier, Jenny McCarthy, Mark Geier, TLC | 34 Comments

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

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: March 26, 2012

Category: Public health, Quacks, Vaccines | Tagged Andrew Wakefield, Bob Sears, Huffington Post, measles, Orange County Register, San Diego, This American Life | 20 Comments

It really is bizarro day: Andrew Wakefield sues Brian Deer, BMJ

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: January 5, 2012

Category: Media, Vaccines | Tagged Amy Wallace, Andrew Wakefield, British Medical Journal, Fiona Godlee, Left Brain/Right Brain, Orac, Respectful Insolence, Sullivan | 15 Comments

SciWriteLabs #6: BMJ editor Fiona Godlee on the Wakefield-MMR fiasco, the problems with peer review, and research oversight boards

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: November 10, 2011

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

SciWriteLabs #5.1: Nature’s Ananyo Bhattacharya on “Bad Science,” inverted pyramids, and information webs

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: November 7, 2011

Category: Media, science, SciWriteLabs | Tagged Alan Dove, Ananyo Bhattacharya, Andrew Wakefield, Association of British Science Writers, Ben Goldacre, Brendan Maher, David Kroll, Ed Yong, Ivan Oransky, Martin Robbins, MMR, Nature, Reuters, The Guardian, Vincent Racaniello | 5 Comments

ABC News lies to readers, pretends 2009 news story on vaccines was written last week.

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: September 21, 2011

Category: Journalism, Media, Vaccines | Tagged ABC News, Andrew Wakefield, Emily Main, FDA, Liza Gross, Michelle Bachmann, PLoS Biology, Rick Bragg, Rodale, The New York Times, thimerosal | 7 Comments

Will Bachmann’s anti-vaccine pandering fall flat? The changing political landscape for proponents of pediatric and public health

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: September 13, 2011

Category: Politics, Public health, Vaccines | Tagged Andrew Wakefield, Autism Science Foundations, Barack Obama, Bill Nelson, carbon dioxide, Democrats, Evan Siegfried, Gerald Ford, GRASP, Hillary Clinton, HPV, Jimmy Carter, John McCain, measles, Michelle Bachmann, pertussis, PKIDS, Republicans, Rick Perry, Rudy Guiliani, swine flu, Tampa, Texas, The Today Show | 2 Comments

More evidence Western vaccine paranoia is being exported to developing countries

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: July 5, 2011

Category: Autism, Public health, Vaccine safety, Vaccines | Tagged Andrew Wakefield, Art Caplan, Arthur Krigsman, Autism Omnibus Proceeding, Center for Bioethics, Human Vaccine, India, measles, Michelle Cedillo, MMR, Pacific Health Summit, polio, University of Pennsylvania | 15 Comments

Anecdotal Amish-don’t-vaccinate claims disproved by fact-based study

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: June 28, 2011

Category: Autism, Public health, Vaccines | Tagged Amish, Andrew Wakefield, Autism News Beat, Ken Reibel, Pediatrics | 91 Comments

Blog Archives

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

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

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

It really is bizarro day: Andrew Wakefield sues Brian Deer, BMJ

SciWriteLabs #6: BMJ editor Fiona Godlee on the Wakefield-MMR fiasco, the problems with peer review, and research oversight boards

SciWriteLabs #5.1: Nature’s Ananyo Bhattacharya on “Bad Science,” inverted pyramids, and information webs

ABC News lies to readers, pretends 2009 news story on vaccines was written last week.

Will Bachmann’s anti-vaccine pandering fall flat? The changing political landscape for proponents of pediatric and public health

More evidence Western vaccine paranoia is being exported to developing countries

Anecdotal Amish-don’t-vaccinate claims disproved by fact-based study

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