TagsTagsThe 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
Sharron Angle is just one of the many GOP far right extremists running for office this election, and her latest statements show how far out of the mainstream she really is -- calling autism and maternity benefits "politically correct special interests:" Angle: Insurance mandates are product of government bowing to ...
Nevada, Sharron Angle, Republican Party, Extremism, Far Right, John Birch Society, Autism, Health Insurance
Here’s a very cool video promo for a cause you may not expect: [Video] The link comes from a friend of Bill Whittle’s, Dana Commandatore, with a note about the motivation of the clip: I’m the mother of a 6 year old autistic boy who has had enough of the pseudo-science quackery ...
Vaccines, Medicine, Health, kooks, Pseudo-Science, Jenny McCarthy, Autism, babes
Here’s an excellent article exploring the disturbing rise of irrational anti-vaccination theories, now threatening public health as diseases long thought eradicated in modern societies are returning with a vengeance: A Broken Trust: Lessons from the Vaccine–Autism Wars. Until the summer of 2005, Sharon Kaufman had never paid much attention to ...
Vaccines, Medicine, Health, kooks, Pseudo-Science, Jenny McCarthy, Autism
In today’s Chicago Tribune, an exposé of a Chicago doctor who peddles anti-vaccination insanity to patients—along with quack remedies, including a claim that Vitamin D cures autism: Autism doctor: Troubling record trails doctor treating autism. Dr. Mayer Eisenstein comes across as a grandfatherly physician, a pat-on-the-knee practitioner who delivers babies ...
Vaccines, Medicine, Health, kooks, Pseudo-Science, Chicago, Autism
Dr. Paul Offit, MD, author of the excellent book Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure, is interviewed on the Brain Science Podcast, debunking the hysteria being spread about vaccines. [Audio] (Hat tip: Paolo.)