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TLC disappears comments, edits its turd of an anti-vaccine piece. It still stinks.

Category: Autism, Quacks, Vaccine safety, Vaccines | Tagged , , , , , , , | 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 , , , , , , , , , , | 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 , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 19 Comments

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

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

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SciWriteLabs #4, in which Alistair Dove argues that bad science inevitably gets “overwritten” by good science…and I point out on all the harm that can happen in the meantime

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So does that mean cancer patients should be suing cows?

Category: Autism, Media, Vaccines | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Why you (hopefully) won’t hear claims that the MMR vaccine protects against autism

Category: Autism, Vaccines | Tagged , , , , , | 9 Comments

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

Category: Public health, Vaccines | Tagged , , , , , | 8 Comments

What price will the black-ops bin Laden vaccination scheme exact on global health efforts?

Category: Government, Public health, Vaccines | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 13 Comments