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Oprah gets called out for her quackery1 comment

writerchick99 wrote 1 month ago: Here is a really good article from NEWSWEEK calling out Oprah Winfrey and her parade of pseudoscient … more →

Tags: Science, Critical thinking / debunking / skepticism, Culture, Art/entertainment/pop culture, Oprah, Autism, MMR, MUMPS, rubella

Shout Out: An Open Letter to Oprah2 comments

mattusmaximus wrote 2 months ago: In keeping with Carl Sagan’s adage that it is better to light a candle than curse the darkness … more →

Tags: medical woo, Conspiracy, Conspiracy Theories, Skeptic, Skepticism, Jenny McCarthy, Vaccines, Autism, Medicine

Oprah Winfrey Gives Platform to Anti-Vax Movement4 comments

mattusmaximus wrote 2 months ago: Oh boy, this is not good news.  It seems that media mogul and daytime diva Oprah Winfrey has given a … more →

Tags: medical woo, Conspiracy, Conspiracy Theories, Skeptic, Skepticism, Jenny McCarthy, Vaccines, Autism, Medicine

Another Herd Immunity question1 comment

mamawork wrote 2 months ago: When a population has a level of lifelong immunity to a certain disease such that an epidemic of tha … more →

Tags: health, Vaccinations, Public Health, Immunizations, immunity

Measles vaccine

lymphocyte67 wrote 4 months ago: ‘No Bias. No Bull’ — CNN’s Campbell Brown encourages parents to get their ki … more →

Tags: Measles, Autism

Bad Science Language

Britt wrote 5 months ago: Language in science is a challenge. Science comes with gray areas that both intrigue and confuse.  G … more →

Tags: language, Research, Science

Jeni Barnett, LBC, Stephen Fry, MMR Vaccination – Can We Milk This?1 comment

DBH wrote 5 months ago: The flurry of activity in the bad science blogosphere in the past few days, coupled with the overwhe … more →

Tags: Science, MMR, Andrew Wakefield, Jeni Barnett, LBC, Measles, Stephen Fry, Ben Goldacre, NHS

Measles, MMR, and herd immunity

netkingcol wrote 5 months ago: This morning the Health Protection Agency blamed the rapid increase in the incidence of measles on t … more →

Tags: Government, health, Medicine, Health Protection Agency, Infection, LinkedIn, Measles, MMR, Policy

Vaccine cuts meningitis rates, even in adults

Skepdude wrote 6 months ago: CHICAGO (Reuters) – A routine childhood vaccine used to prevent several common types of infections … more →

Tags: News, Vaccines, Anti-Vaccination, Meningitis

thoughts on the herd immunity theory1 comment

twincowfaeries wrote 6 months ago: My husband and i were talking about infectious disease this morning as my oldest son currently has t … more →

Tags: Vaccination, immunity, Infectious Disease, Essential Oils, Social Responsibility, Public Health

Antivaxxers1 comment

Perpetual Dissent wrote 6 months ago: I doubt it’ll be much longer before I run into something that sets me off on a rant about anti … more →

Tags: Science, antivax, antivaccine, Vaccines, Vaccination

The View from Outside the Box: Vaccination

drtim wrote 6 months ago: People seem to have this opinion that chiropractors are opposed to vaccination.  And while most of u … more →

Tags: Blogroll, Chiropractic, Health Care, Health Insurance, Alternative Health Care, Health Issues, Motivational, Self-Help, Vaccination

When It Comes to Flu, the More Who Get Vaccine, the Better

timeinctemp wrote 8 months ago: TUESDAY, Oct. 28 (HealthDay News) — The more people who get the flu vaccine, the better it is for ev … more →

Tags: health news, flu vaccine

from the mother knows best file7 comments

melo wrote 11 months ago: All those well-meaning parents so freaked out about the most minute of risks associated with very sa … more →

Tags: Education, Science, Idiocy, thimerosal, Vaccines, MMR, Measles, CDC, Pauline Filipek

Antivaxxers and the media

Skepdude wrote 11 months ago: I have said this before, and I will say it again many times in the future: antivaxxers are potential … more →

Tags: Bad Astronomy, Vaccines, Amanda Peet, Amanda Peet on vaccines, Autism, cancer vaccine, Antiscience, Antivaccination lunacy, Anti-Vaccination

Inoculate me from all these please!!

mammjtommo wrote 1 year ago: Following on from the immunization blog I started thinking about other areas of life I’d like to … more →

Tags: BSE, credit crunch, lending,, inoculation, MMR, Arrogance, Bluetooth earpieces, credit, Credit Cards, credit crunch, Developers

Measles Vaccine Responsible For Outbreak; Vaccinated Population Contracts Mumps

kandylini wrote 1 year ago: From Red Pill Reich, a great blog by nurse Olivia Love Worthy. Check it out! Research shows that va … more →

Tags: health, Vaccines, Measles, vaccine failure, MMR Vaccine

Vaccines Work Longer than Previously Thought

SearchMedica wrote 1 year ago: Long-term study raises questions about need for booster shots Analyzing regular blood samples taken … more →

Tags: Family Medicine, vaccine, varicella, tetanus, diphtheria


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