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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.)