Andrew Wakefield got an interview on Fox to defend his film Vaxxed (the video and transcript are at Fox Provides Platform For…
If you’re trying to debunk a conspiracy theory and your message is complicated, you’ve probably already lost. The sorts of…
Ben Swann, anchor of the evening news for the local Atlanta CBS affiliate and the face of his Truth In Media series of videos…
For those unfamiliar with the story of William Thompson, here’s a brief introduction. William Thompson is a CDC researcher who…
The Geiers, Hooker and Company have a new "Review" out which is hilariously titled,"Systematic Assessment of Research on Autism…
As a few people have written about recently, a book was recently published in which we get to read transcripts of conversations…
This book is being released today and is surely much anticipated by the anti-vaccine brigade which has desperately sought to…
A year ago we learned that a CDC researcher (William Thompson) had reached out to Brian Hooker (of all people!) and was talking…
This isn't film noir--it's a multilevel bureaucracy with multiple levels of data backup, archiving, and storage.
Photo by Rich Polk/Getty Images for Waterkeeper…
Once again, vaccination is back in the news. On the heels of a new law passed in California that requires children to be…
For many years Andrew Wakefield put forth the image of the reasonable scientist who has been persecuted for merely asking…
About two months ago an autism parent published a study: a “reanalysis” of a CDC dataset. That study: Measles-mumps-rubella…
I haven’t written here about the CDC “whistleblower” issue, because I was in Shanghai when the story broke with both limited…
Brian Johnson is a chiropractor from the US who has set up his business at West End Chiropractic and Wellness Centre, in…
Anyone following the Twitter #vaccinesNOVA hashtag on the evening of Wednesday September 10 would have seen their stream…
A retracted journal article has reignited the debate about vaccines and autism.; Credit: Photo by ad-vantage via Flickr…
Albert Einstein made mistakes and misinterpreted data. He said that his own cosmological constant was a big personal…
Educator/writer Liz Ditz often keeps a running summary of online discussions of trending topics. Below are some of her links. …
They say that truth is stranger than fiction. I never really necessarily believed it, but yesterday was a day that might well…
An article purporting to find that black children are at substantially increased risk for autism after early exposure to the…
The paper recently published by Brian Hooker, Measles-mumps-rubella vaccination timing and autism among young african american…
The groups promoting vaccines causing autism have been handed probably their biggest story in a decade. They are claiming, and…
The anti-vaxxers are excited. A recent paper, Measles-mumps-rubella vaccination timing and autism among young african american…
Occasionally, there are issues that come to my attention that need more than just one blog post to cover. One such issue popped…
Here we go again. If there’s anything that ignites the fevered brains (such as they are) of antivaccine activists, it’s a good…