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Blog Archives
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 7.2: The New York Times’s Amy Harmon on what it means to be a science writer
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
LATimes on the autism “epidemic”: “more a surge in diagnosis than in disease”
Category: Autism, Media, Vaccines
Tagged Ben Goldacre, British Medical Journal, CDC, Los Angeles Times, NBC News, The Panic Virus, Wall Street Journal
2 Comments
Why you (hopefully) won’t hear claims that the MMR vaccine protects against autism
Category: Autism, Vaccines
Tagged causation, CDC, correlation, Matt Carey, MMR, New Jersey
9 Comments
Running the numbers: US vaccination rates up ever so slightly; New Jersey way below national average
Category: Public health, Vaccines
Tagged CDC, measles, MMR, Montana, New Jersey, United States
8 Comments
CDC issues official emergency health alert on measles (Plus: a success story in Ghana)
Category: Health care, Measles, Vaccines
Tagged CDC, Ghana, K.O. Antwi-Agyei, Pacific Health Summit, U.K.
1 Comment
Tune in to the Health Affairs briefing on Strategies for the “Decade of Vaccines”
Category: Media, Public health, Vaccines
Tagged CDC, Glen Nowak, Health Affairs, The Gates Foundation
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