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

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: May 16, 2012

Category: Autism, Quacks, Vaccine safety, Vaccines | Tagged ADHD, CDC, ethylmercury, FDA, MMR, The Lancet, thimerosal, TLC | 16 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

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