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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Too much vaccine/autism monkey business for me to be involved in–but apparently not Laura Hewitson

Ever since I somehow stumbled into a niche in the blogosphere where I seem to be one of a handful of go-to bloggers for issues having to do with vaccines and the anti-vaccine movement, like Spider-Man I realize that with great power comes great responsibility. Wait a minute. That beginning was too pompous and pretentious […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine

Pumping autistic children full of an industrial chelator (revisited again)

As much fun as I had at TAM8, there is one consequence of being out of town and not paying attention to the blog or the Internet as much as I usually do. Well, actually, there are multiple consequences. One is a momentary lapse in insanity. In other words, it’s good for the mental health […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Entertainment/culture Medicine Music Quackery

Say it ain’t so, Jill! Jill Sobule agrees to perform at a fundraiser for Andrew Wakefield’s “medical research organization”? [UPDATED]

Orac note: Please be sure to read the addendum. Say it ain’t so, Jill! Check out this e-mail notice from the latest Generation Rescue mailing list sent to me by a reader. It’s apparently legitimate, because I found a copy of it on the Generation Rescue website itself. Look at who’s being featured at a […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine

The Vaccine Song

Finally, I’m winging my way back home after TAM8 plus a couple of days. It seems as though I’ve been away a long time, even though it’s only been less than six days. While I’m on a travel day, check out this video that a few of you have been sending me: Not bad. Not […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Humor Medicine Quackery

A first: A cease and desist Tweet

Remember Doctors Data? It’s the highly dubious medical laboratory that Trine Tsouderos exposed in her series on the quackery that is the “autism biomed” movement. A couple of weeks ago, Doctors Data also decided to launch what appears to be frivolous lawsuit against the creator and maintainer of the Quackwatch website, Steve Barrett; i.e. a […]