Stem cell tourism: A problem right here in the good ol’ USA
Last week, I wrote about a man named Jim Gass, a former chief legal counsel for Sylvania, who had suffered a debilitating stroke in 2009 that left him without the use of his left arm, and weak left...
View ArticleThe violent rhetoric of the antivaccine movement, “I didn’t really mean it”...
It’s always nice when I learn that a target of my—shall we say?—Insolence takes note of what I’ve written. Well, maybe not always nice. Sometimes that notice takes the form of attacks, such as those by...
View ArticleJill Stein and left wing antivaccine dog whistles
During the political battle last year over the recently implemented California law SB 277, which eliminates nonmedical exemptions to school vaccine mandates and then later during the campaign for the...
View ArticleMedscape enables functional medicine quackery
It’s no secret that I’m not exactly a fan of Dr. Mark Hyman he of the “Ultrawellness” medical empire and arguably the foremost promoter of the “subspecialty” (if you will) of “integrative medicine”...
View ArticleBleaching away what ails you: Miracle Mineral Solution and Jim Humble’s...
It’s time to get this video clip out again: Yes, just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in. But who are “they”? I’m referring to the cult that thinks that bleach enemas (and also ingested...
View ArticleMeasles is more dangerous than we thought, and vaccines are as safe as we...
As hard as it is to believe, it’s been nearly two years since the infamous Disneyland measles outbreak, which occurred after the holidays in 2014. It was an outbreak whose spread was facilitated by...
View ArticleREVEALED: Disgraced antivax “scientist” Andrew Wakefield met with Donald...
As I write this, the 2016 Election is lurching painfully to its conclusion, with about a week to go. In my entire adult life, dating back to when I first reached the age where I started paying...
View ArticleAnd so the dismantling of public health begins: Donald Trump meets with...
I remember when I first heard on Twitter yesterday afternoon that our President-Elect, Donald Trump, was going to meet with longtime antivaccine crank Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Remembering how Trump had...
View ArticleNo, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is NOT a “vaccine skeptic.” He is antivaccine. So...
This week hasn’t been a particularly good week for science. It started out on Monday with news of the social media storm from over the weekend over a blatantly antivaccine screed published the Friday...
View ArticleAntivaxers are collecting stories of “vaccine injury” to send to Donald Trump...
I’ve written quite a bit about how our soon-to-be President Donald Trump has consistently expressed antivaccine views over the years, such as his oft-stated (on Twitter and elsewhere) beliefs that it’s...
View ArticleInauguration day: How President Trump could undermine trust in vaccines
In a (very) few short hours, Donald Trump will take the oath of office and become the 45th President of the United States. I realize that I don’t normally blog about politics, at least other than that...
View ArticleA case study in fake news: Did the FBI raid the CDC based on the CDC...
Fake news has become an enormous problem. Here, Orac takes a look at a rather fascinating tidbit of fake news aimed at the antivaccine movement. Did the FBI really raid the CDC with the "CDC...
View ArticleAnother reminder that there is no autism epidemic
One of the core beliefs of the antivaccine movement is that there is an “autism epidemic.” The observation that autism prevalence has been climbing for the last two to three decades led some parents...
View ArticleMore atrocious antivaccine science promoted by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr
The latest study being promoted as evidence that vaccines cause autism is truly atrocious. Basically, like many epidemiological studies examining putative links between vaccines and adverse health...
View ArticleIt’s a strange world, after all: Orac vs. The Shat and fake news over…Autism...
Orac is attacked by Capt. Kirk using fake news over the course of several days. Truly, it is a strange world.
View ArticleQuoth an antivaxer: Vaccines are making dogs autistic!
To antivaxers, it's always the vaccines. Now they're claiming vaccines cause autism in dogs. The problem, of course, is that vaccines don't cause autism in humans, and labeling dog behavior as...
View ArticleThanks for the measles yet again, Andy
Yet another population is learning why you shouldn't trust Andrew Wakefield. There is a large Somali immigrant population in Minnesota, and unfortunately they've been targeted by antivaxers. As a...
View ArticleThe New York Times publishes fake news false hope in the form of a credulous...
It's been a bad week for the Gray Lady in the science department. Hot off the heels of hiring a climate science denier for its op-ed section, it's published a credulous article that uncritically touts...
View ArticleThe Somali measles outbreak in Minnesota: Thanks again, Andy (and American...
Antivaxers targeted a. vulnerable community of Somali immigrants in Minnesota. The result: A large (and growing) measles outbreak. Thanks, Andy.
View ArticleThe violent rhetoric of the antivaccine movement: “Vaccine Holocaust” and...
Antivaxers are planning on publishing the personal information of employees of the Boston Herald because the paper published an editorial saying that promoting antivaccine misinformation among a...
View ArticleWhy is antivaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. meeting with government...
In January, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. bragged about having met with President-Elect Donald Trump about chairing a presidential commission on vaccine safety. In the intervening eight months, no commission...
View ArticleNo, vaccines do not cause sudden infant death syndrome, a Vaccine Court...
There was a rumbling in the antivaccine underground a week ago about a recent ruling by the Vaccine Court compensating parents of a child who died of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). In a confused...
View ArticleTorturing more mice in the name of antivaccine pseudoscience, 2017 aluminum...
Over the last couple of days I noted a disturbance in the antivaccine force, another study claimed to be slam dunk evidence that aluminum adjuvants in vaccines cause autism. It's not. Also, a word to...
View ArticleTorturing more mice in the name of antivaccine pseudoscience: PubPeer versus...
Last week, I wrote about a truly execrable bit of science by Christopher Shaw and Lucija Tomljenovic purporting to show that aluminum adjuvants cause brain inflammation, which causes autism. Since...
View ArticleFalse balance in reporting the case of a local mother jailed for contempt of...
Rachel Bredow is antivaccine and doesn't want her children vaccinated. Her ex-husband disagrees. When Ms. Bredow violated a court order to vaccinate her child, she was thrown into jail for contempt of...
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