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“Dr. Bob” Sears: Perfecting the art of the antivaccine dog whistle

Oh, no, here we go again. In fact, before I get started, I feel obligated to show this clip, saying, just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in again: Yes, I know I’ve used this clip on multiple occasions before over years. However, sometimes it’s just so completely appropriate to how […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine

The past and present rebuke antivaccinationists who claim measles is “benign”

In the wake of antivaccine-pandering pediatrician “Dr. Bob” Sears’ attempt to paint the measles as no big deal, so much so that it totally escaped his notice that it might not be a bad idea to recommend that the unvaccinated get the MMR vaccine in the midst of an outbreak, the bad news about the […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery Science Skepticism/critical thinking

Quoth “Dr. Bob” Sears: Poor, poor pitiful me, you stupid people

Poor, poor, pitiful Dr. Bob. For those of you not familiar with him, I’m referring, of course, to Robert “Dr. Bob” Sears, MD, the antivaccine-sympathetic (or, more appropriately, antivaccine-pandering) pediatrician in Capistrano Beach, CA (between Los Angeles and San Diego in Orange County) known for his Vaccine Book, a veritable font of antivaccine misinformation gussied […]

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Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Politics Quackery Religion

A tale of two unnecessarily doomed aboriginal girls with leukemia

I’m depressed and angry as I write this. The reason for this is simple. I hate it when cancer quacks claim the lives of patients with cancer, particularly patients who were eminently treatable for cure. It’s happened again, and it makes me sad. Florida cancer quack Brian Clement has claimed the life of Makayla Sault, […]

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Bill Maher: Still an antivaccine wingnut after all these years

It should come as no surprise to anyone here that I consider Bill Maher to be an antivaccine and pro-alternative medicine wingnut. Indeed, early on in my blogging “career” (such as it is), I used to blog about him fairly regularly, mainly because he served up deliciously stupid antivaccine red meat to a blogger like […]