"A statement of fact cannot be insolent." The miscellaneous ramblings of a surgeon/scientist on medicine, quackery, science, and pseudoscience (and anything else that interests him).

Category: Antivaccine nonsense

Antivaccine nonsense Medicine

Yet more evidence that Andrew Wakefield is anti-vaccine

Post author By Orac
Post date November 7, 2010
50 Comments on Yet more evidence that Andrew Wakefield is anti-vaccine

As a final post on Vaccine Awareness Week, after having asked what it means to be anti-vaccine, before moving onI thought I’d post this video, a link to which Andrew Wakefield himself tweeted: Who says Andrew Wakefield is not anti-vaccine? If he does, he’s lying. But, then, Andrew Wakefield does lie a lot.

Battling misinformed consent: How should we respond to the anti-vaccine movement?

Post author By Orac
Post date November 5, 2010
281 Comments on Battling misinformed consent: How should we respond to the anti-vaccine movement?

Antivaxers frequently claim that they are champions of “informed consent.” In reality, their version of informed consent is a parody of consent that I like to refer to as “misinformed consent.”

Tags antivaccine, misinformed consent, pseudoscience, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Autism Medicine Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

J.B. Handley: Attacking the AAP over vaccines…again

Post author By Orac
Post date November 4, 2010
105 Comments on J.B. Handley: Attacking the AAP over vaccines…again

I may have taken a break yesterday, but that doesn’t mean I’ve abandoned my mission to make this Vaccine Awareness Week (or, more properly, the Anti-vaccine Movement Awareness Week, dedicated to countering the lies of the anti-vaccine movement). Even though it was good to take a day off, the anti-vaccine movement rarely takes a day […]

Antivaccine nonsense Autism Bioethics Biology Evolution Intelligent design/creationism Medicine Science Skepticism/critical thinking

The strange science and ethics of the anti-vaccine movement

Post author By Orac
Post date November 2, 2010
93 Comments on The strange science and ethics of the anti-vaccine movement

One of the great things about having declared Vaccine Awareness Week is that it gives me a convenient excuse to revisit topics and blog posts that I had meant to address but that somehow didn’t make the cut the first time around. This is the sort of thing that happens fairly frequently in blogging, where […]