Colorado health officials mulling mandatory vaccinations | Vaccine News Daily. Healthcare workers should be obligated to receive influenza vaccinations, mainly because they can be a nexus of spreading of the disease. I personally don’t get why a healthcare worker should… Read More »Colorado health officials mulling mandatory vaccinations
This morning, I was reading a posting by Orac, the nom de guerre (or nom de blog, according to him) of a rather snarky, humorous, and brilliant (yeah, I think he’s brilliant) surgeon hiding somewhere in the midwest. In his… Read More »The dopes, I mean tropes, of the vaccine, evolution and climate change denialists
I didn’t realize how many bloggers about vaccines posted on this woman. It makes me a bit concerned that we’ve given her more credit than she deserves, but it’s important to stamp out the vaccine denialism quickly. So when someone… Read More »Other blog comments on Patriot Nurse
Pseudoscience pushing individuals can be likened to zombies. They have no brains, and their only goal in life is to eat the brains of those who don’t adhere to their position. The anti-vaccine crowd are my favorite zombies, because the… Read More »The Zombie Apocalypse or vaccine myths that won’t die
8 Hunterdon county children diagnosed with whooping cough were behind on vaccines | NJ.com. So here are more children that should have been vaccinated against a disease that is preventable by a simple vaccination. It’s just so frustrating. Oh, one… Read More »8 Hunterdon county children diagnosed with whooping cough were behind on vaccines
Andrew Wakefield sues BMJ for claiming MMR study was fraudulent | Society | guardian.co.uk. Poor Andy. He writes a fraudulent article in The Lancet, which the prestigious journal eventually has to withdraw and his co-authors disown the same article. Brian… Read More »Andrew Wakefield sues BMJ for claiming MMR study was fraudulent
As I’ve discussed previously, I find the anti-vaccine movement, linking cases of autism to pediatric vaccinations, to be based on pseudoscientific principles. There are several individuals that have pushed this quackery, but one of the more visible is Jenny McCarthy,… Read More »Vaccines–once more with emphasis
The anti-vaccinationsts have had a lot of success in Europe recently. According to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, they report these rather gloomy statistics for measles during the Jan-Oct, 2011 time period: France–nearly 15,000 measles cases Italy–over… Read More »Good job vaccine denialists
Seth Mnookin: The Autism Vaccine Controversy and the Need for Responsible Science Journalism. The Huffington Post is not known for it’s pro-science editorial content, but I do appreciate that Mnookin writes there. The irony is kind of dripping that the… Read More »Seth Mnookin: The Autism Vaccine Controversy and the Need for Responsible Science Journalism
This is part of my ongoing discussion on how quacks use pseudoscience to push their myths and potions on the world. Part 1 discussed the scientific method, which allows us to objectively analyze the natural world. Part 2 discussed the… Read More »How pseudoscience makes its case. Part 3.