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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

After disappearing from his family’s site, Sears tells Facebook fans that measles outbreaks not “much risk” for infants

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: June 6, 2011

Category: Measles, Public health, Vaccines | Tagged Amazon, Bill Sears, Bob Sears, Facebook, MMR, Mothering.com, San Diego, The Autism Book, The Panic Virus, The Vaccine Book | 27 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

The financial implications of the US measles outbreaks

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: May 25, 2011

Category: Autism, Public health, Vaccines | Tagged Andrew Wakefield, Bob Sears, CDC, France, Lancet, Liz Szabo, measles, Minnesota, MMR, San Diego, Somali, UK, USA Today | 92 Comments