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LATimes on the autism “epidemic”: “more a surge in diagnosis than in disease”

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: December 12, 2011
Category: Autism, Media, Vaccines | Tagged Ben Goldacre, British Medical Journal, CDC, Los Angeles Times, NBC News, The Panic Virus, Wall Street Journal | 2 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
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