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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics

Antivaccinationists in strange places

I just can’t escape them. Even when I want to, even when I’d like to take a break, they’re there. The anti-vaccine nutcases. This time around, they showed up at, of all places, Netroots Nation, where the deceptively named National Vaccine Information Center, an explicitly antivaccination group that spreads nothing but lies, set up a […]

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Anti-Semitism History Holocaust Holocaust denial Politics World War II

An English Holocaust denier in New York

Somehow, someway, a bit of slime oozed its way into a Manhattan church to insinuate itself into that fair city and thereby contaminate it. Somehow, I managed to miss it. Sadly, the world’s most famous Holocaust denier, David Irving, is touring the U.S. to give aid and comfort to anti-Semites, racists, and Nazi wannabes all […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine

The Wall Street Journal Health Blog: What’s a factor of a thousand if it gets in the way of a good story?

The stupid continues to metastasize. I wrote yesterday about a truly bad and irresponsible hit piece on Paul Offit and the American Academy of Pediatrics written by the anti-vaccinationist sympathizer Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News. Since I’ve already rehashed what was so bad about it, I won’t go on about it. However, it appears that […]

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3,000,000

I demand the sum of…..three MILLION visits! Muhahahahahaha! Yes, I know I did that bit before—twice, even!—but I liked it so much that I wanted to do it again, at least until my readers run screaming away, annoyed that Orac, of all people, would recycle the same old joke over and over. The horror, the […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Entertainment/culture Medicine Quackery Television

More biased “journalism” about vaccines

You know, I think I’ve found a bride for Steve Wilson. You remember Steve Wilson, don’t you? He’s the local “investigative reporter” in my hometown who recently did a truly awful “report” (it actually makes me cringe to call it a “report,” but I couldn’t think of anything else to call it) a couple of […]