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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

Autism roundtable, Part I: Angry parents, disability rights, and living in a neurotypical world

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: January 25, 2012

Category: Autism, Media, Public health, science | Tagged Amy Harmon, Apple, applied behavioral analysis, Ari Ne'eman, Asperger syndrome, autism cults, Autism Diva, Autistic Self Advocacy Network, Defeat Autism Now!, DSM, Grateful Dead, iPad, Jenny McCarthy, John Elder Robison, Kristina Chew, Left Brain/Right Brain, Loving Lampposts, Lydia Brown, Neurotribes, Paul Collins, Ralph James Savarese, Shannon Des Roches Rosa, Steve Silberman, Temple Grandin, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, The Panic Virus, The Thinking Person's Guide to Autism, Todd Drezner, Tom Lehrer, vaccines | 25 Comments

“Vigilante for truth”: An accurate headline…or shameless Twitter bait?

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: January 12, 2012

Category: Journalism, Media, The New York Times | Tagged Adam Liptak, Arthur Brisbane, autism, Clarence Thomas, public editor, The Panic Virus, Twitter, vaccines, vigilantes | 4 Comments

SciWriteLabs 7.2: The New York Times’s Amy Harmon on what it means to be a science writer

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: January 11, 2012

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

Today’s Twitter chat with “Here is a Human Being” author Misha Angrist…Storified!

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: November 11, 2011

Category: Storify, Twitter | Tagged Canada, Carl Elliott, David Kroll, factchecking, fluoride, genetically modified crops, genomes, Here Is a Human Being, Janet Malcolm, Joe McGinness, meth labs, Michael Kinsley, Misha Angrist, pertussis, SciO12, Sea Cow, The Panic Virus, vaccines | Leave a comment

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

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

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: October 30, 2011

Category: Media, science, SciWriteLabs | Tagged Alan Dove, Alistair Dove, Ananyo Bhattacharya, arsenic life, Deep Sea News, MMR, Nature, Rosie Redfield, The Daily Beast, The Panic Virus, This Week in Virology, Twitter, University of Michigan, vaccines | 1 Comment