TagsTagsIn 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
The anti-vaccination insanity is starting to take a fatal toll across the pond as well: Measles outbreak ‘worst in years’. Health chiefs in Wales are dealing with a “massive” measles outbreak, with numbers already four times the highest figure recorded over the past 13 years. Four nursery school children were treated ...
Shirley Wu says it all in this open letter to Oprah, about her disastrous decision to give a talk show to anti-vaccination kook Jenny McCarthy: Dear Oprah, I have to confess, I have never watched more than a few minutes of your show. Probably not the best way to start a ...
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Discover Magazine has an excellent article by Chris Mooney on the anti-vaccination insanity that crosses political boundaries, and is now becoming a major risk to public health: Why Does the Vaccine/Autism Controversy Live On? Vaccines do not cause autism. That was the ruling in each of three critical test cases ...
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The Wall Street Journal has an article about a report from the Centers for Disease Control warning about new outbreaks of diseases thought to be eradicated—due to parents who are buying into the anti-vaccination craziness promoted by people like Jenny McCarthy: Fear of Vaccines Spurs Outbreaks, Study Says. Parental doubts ...
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Writing about the latest anti-vaccination insanity published at Huffington Post, Phil Plait says: I am embarrassed I ever wrote anything for HuffPo, which is now a cesspool of misleading misinformation. I could have told you that long ago, Phil. But we all have our blind spots, I guess.
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Apparently, physicians and medical scientists are just as disgusted with the Huffington Post as your average “right wing” blogger. Who knew? Jim Carrey, husband of anti-vaccination kook Jenny McCarthy, has written a screed for Arianna advocating the latest Dark Ages fantasy of the left and the right: that vaccinations cause autism. This ...
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Neocons are more intelligent than most conservatives but much more evil.
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Thanks in part to the kooks on both the right and the left who are promoting anti-vaccination insanity (people like Jenny McCarthy and publications like World Net Daily), diseases long thought eradicated are making a big comeback in London. London is suffering a startling rise in diseases associated with Victorian ...
The anti-vaccine kooks are getting another boost of free publicity tonight on the Larry King show, featuring Jenny McCarthy—who is just fine with the return of polio if it helps her sell some more books. Disgusting, and irresponsible beyond belief. Shame on CNN and Larry King for promoting this destructive, ...
Vaccines, Medicine, Health, kooks, Pseudo-Science, Jenny McCarthy
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.)
Tonight’s angry, belligerent email is regarding our recent posts about the anti-vaccination insanity being promoted by the likes of Jenny McCarthy, from a reader in New York, titled “a love note of sorts.” But there’s really not much love in this one. Before you crap on people for being suspicious of ...
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Anti-vaccination kook Jenny McCarthy is interviewed today in TIME Magazine, and the former Playboy model/MTV airhead says if polio returns in a new pandemic because of anti-vaccination propaganda, she’s just fine with that. Your collaborator recommends that parents accept only the haemophilus influenzae type B (HIB) and tetanus vaccine for ...
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Anti-vaccination fever caused an LGF reader in Irvine, California to email the following mash note, titled “how much we think we know:” Charles, How do you know there’s no connection between vaccines and autism?? AS far as I know there’s no “official” link between eating deep colored vegetables and getting ...
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If you had any doubt that bad craziness is on the rise in America, here’s an LA Times report on the increasing number of California parents who refuse to let their children be vaccinated, because of pseudo-scientific fear-mongering by fringe groups. A rising number of California parents are choosing to ...
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The National Museum of Health and Medicine has begun posting its extraordinary photographic history of medicine at Flickr: Otis Archives. Hours of fascination await.
It’s been confirmed beyond any doubt: Circumcision Reduces HIV Risk. And the director of WHO’s AIDS department oughtta know. “This is an extraordinary development,” said Dr. Kevin de Cock, director of the World Health Organization’s AIDS department. Thank goodness his parents didn’t name him “Richard.”
Tour de France winner Floyd Landis may beat the doping charges that threaten to strip him of his title, because the French apparently mishandled his urine samples: Report: Case against Landis in jeopardy. According to a report in the L.A. Times, the anti-doping case against Tour de France champion Floyd Landis ...
Tour de France, Cycling, Fitness, Health, Sports, Floyd Landis
If you read the lefty blogs, I’m supposed to be dressed in sackcloth, rubbing ashes into my hair and wailing, “Oh, how could I have been so wrong! I am worthless! Kill me instead of the noble Jamil Hussein!” Instead I traded the sackcloth for some Pearl Izumi bike clothes ...
Because the anti-bacterial gel contains alcohol: Muslims ‘refuse anti-MRSA gel’. (Hat tip: Tom.) Some Muslims are undermining the battle to rid Britain’s hospitals of killer infections by refusing to wash their hands when visiting sick relatives. Dispensers containing anti-bacterial gel have been placed outside wards at hospitals all over Britain in a ...