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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

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 | 23 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 #5.2: Bhattacharya returns! The MMR debacle and why peer review is no substitute for penetrative reporting

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: November 10, 2011

Category: Media, science, SciWriteLabs | Tagged Alistair Dove, Ananyo Bhattacharya, Cardiff University, genetically modified crops, measles, MMR, Nature, peer review, The Guardian, The Lancet, The Panic Virus, vaccines | 3 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

Running the numbers: US vaccination rates up ever so slightly; New Jersey way below national average

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: September 1, 2011

Category: Public health, Vaccines | Tagged CDC, measles, MMR, Montana, New Jersey, United States | 8 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

Parents and pediatricians: Do you think a pre-natal discussion about vaccines would help assuage fears?

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: June 11, 2011

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 | 71 Comments

It’s official: Wakefield joins the ranks of Truthers, New World Order conspiracists

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: June 7, 2011

Category: Autism, Measles, Vaccine safety, Vaccines | Tagged Alan Watt, Andrew Wakefield, Dublin, F. William Engdahl, fluoride, Ireland, Jim Corr, Luke Rudkowski, measles, MMR, New World Order, Richard Gage, The Lancet, truthers, Walter Graham, World Science Festival, World Trade Center | 80 Comments

Is “Dr. Bob” Sears moving away from his profitable anti-vaccine pandering?

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: June 3, 2011

Category: excerpt, Public health, Vaccines | Tagged Bob Sears, California, France, Hachette, Hib, Jay Gordon, Just the Vax, measles, MMR, San Diego, The Panic Virus, The Vaccine Book, Time Magazine | 52 Comments

Blog Archives

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

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

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

SciWriteLabs #5.2: Bhattacharya returns! The MMR debacle and why peer review is no substitute for penetrative reporting

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

Running the numbers: US vaccination rates up ever so slightly; New Jersey way below national average

More evidence Western vaccine paranoia is being exported to developing countries

Parents and pediatricians: Do you think a pre-natal discussion about vaccines would help assuage fears?

It’s official: Wakefield joins the ranks of Truthers, New World Order conspiracists

Is “Dr. Bob” Sears moving away from his profitable anti-vaccine pandering?

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