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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Entertainment/culture Medicine Television

Ben Goldacre on how the media reports on vaccines and medicine

By way of badscience.net: Speak it, brother Ben! Oh, and don’t be too hard on your hairstyle and clothing in that one. I could totally picture you as an incarnation of The Doctor in that getup. That sweater vest does look a bit Peter Davison-ish, although the curly locks do rather echo Tom Baker.

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Hero of the antivaccine movement Andrew Wakefield strikes back

The antivaccine counterattack against Brian Deer continues. As you recall, about a month ago British reporter Brian Deer published an exposé, a tour de force of investigative journalism that led him to discover that Andre Wakefield had not only had incredibly blatant undisclosed conflicts of interest (his having been in the pocket of trial lawyers […]

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Pareidolia Skepticism/critical thinking

Pareidolia parade 2008

I have to admit that I’ve always had a soft spot for pareidolia, that phenomenon wherein people see things that aren’t there because human brains are wired for pattern recognition. As a child (and even as an adult), I loved lazily looking up at the clouds and envisioning animals, objects, and people in the clouds. […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Antivaccinationists pwned

I love it when someone does something like this, namely pwning an antivaccine video like The Truth About Vaccines: It’s not perfect, but I love it. Now if only more people would do something similar on YouTube. I’m tired of seeing titles like VACCINES KILL INNOCENT CHILDREN! – Hundreds and More Likely Thousands of Children […]

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Announcements Blogging

I feel an eruption coming on…

…well, not really. It’s just that I wanted to welcome the newest addition to the ScienceBlogs Collective, Dr. Erik Klemetti, a geologist who spends most of his professional time thinking about magma, and likes to blog about it at Eruptions. Check it out, and enjoy!