TagsTagsDespite the numerous scientists and medical professionals who've publicly let Michele Bachmann know that the HPV vaccine has been extensively studied and is not dangerous (beyond the small risks associated with all vaccines), Bachmann is still pushing her false claim that the vaccine "ravages" children: Michele Bachmann: HPV Vaccine 'Ravages' ...
Michele Bachmann, Vaccines, Anti-Vaccine, Anti-Science, Republican Party
Michele Bachmann is still hammering away at Rick Perry's mandated HPV vaccinations, with another new video that sounds like it was recorded in a bathroom. If you listen carefully to what Bachmann is saying (and we all know how painful that can be), she's actually making two arguments: 1) that Rick ...
Michele Bachmann, Anti-Vaccine, Vaccines, HPV, Bad Craziness, Republican Party, Anti-Science, Family Values
TIME Magazine's Healthland blog tears apart Michele Bachmann's loony anti-vaccination nonsense: Vaccination Causes ‘Mental Retardation’? Fact-Checking Michele Bachmann’s Claim. Perhaps more disturbing are comments Bachmann made Tuesday morning about the safety of the HPV vaccine itself — and what they revealed about her utter misunderstanding of the science. Talking with Matt ...
Anti-Science, Republican Party, Bad Craziness, HPV, Vaccines, Anti-Vaccine, Michele Bachmann
The religious right is all lathered up about the Rick Perry HPV controversy. They really hate that vaccine. Gardasil. It's an evil, evil vaccine that leads young women into lives of debauchery and sexual promiscuity, not necessarily in that order, by preventing the disease that would otherwise be their just and righteous ...
Religious Right, Anti-Vaccine, Gardasil, Rick Perry, Homophobia, Hate Mail, Email, Little Green Footballs
Today on his radio show, Glenn "Raving Freakazoid Nut Sandwich" Beck said parents who believe in faith healing should have the absolute right to refuse vaccinations and medical treatment for their children. Even if the kid loses an eye. After all, it's only one eye. And then he advocated killing any government ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Freakazoid, Nut Sandwich, Fox News, Anti-Vaccine, Fundamentalism
The weirdest story of the day comes from Florida (where else?), where one of Gov. Charlie Crist's biggest financial backers is trying to use his political pull to gain access to scores of the state's sealed immunization records -- records that include Social Security numbers and home addresses. The guy who's ...
Autism, Anti-Science, Immunization, Privacy, Charlie Crist, quacks, Anti-Vaccine, Florida
The new age quackery at the Huffington Post is starting to be obvious even to Salon: The Huffington Post is crazy about your health. The Huffington Post is one of the most valuable pieces of real estate on the Internet these days. It operates mostly as a news aggregation site ...
Here’s an excellent post by David Gorski at Science-Based Medicine, taking an in-depth look at The Huffington Post’s War on Medical Science. And the picture is not pretty. But I’d also point out that in addition to the anti-science quackery that runs rampant at HuffPo, there’s been a long-running strain of extreme ...
Huffington Post, Anti-Vaccine, quackery, kooks, Science, Medicine
Keith Olbermann: Played for a fool by the antivaccine movement. Tonight Olbermann let himself be played like a fiddle by antivaccine propagandist David Kirby, the man who, with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., was instrumental in launching the American version of the MMR scare, namely the thimerosal/mercury scare that roared into ...