"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).

Tag: antivaccine

“Science is evil,” or: When Mike Adams meets Deepak Chopra and Ben Stein

Post author By Orac
Post date May 12, 2011
91 Comments on “Science is evil,” or: When Mike Adams meets Deepak Chopra and Ben Stein

Mike Adams just produced “The God Within,” a film whose entire theme is that science is evil. Quelle surprise, coming from a crank like him!

Tags antivaccine, evolution, Mike Adams, quackery, religion

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The annals of “I’m not anti-vaccine,” part 7 (argumentum ad Nazium edition #2, 2011)

Post author By Orac
Post date April 15, 2011
149 Comments on The annals of “I’m not anti-vaccine,” part 7 (argumentum ad Nazium edition #2, 2011)

Because to Dr. Prasad public health interventions will lead to another Hitler. — Nazis. It's always about Nazis.

Time and time again, anti-vaccine activists will piously and self-righteously tell those of us who criticize their pseudoscientific fear mongering, “I’m not anti-vaccine,” followed by something like, “I’m pro-vaccine safety,” “I’m a vaccine safety watchdog,” or “I’m pro-safe vaccine.” Nothing puts the lie to these denials better than looking at the sorts of things anti-vaccine […]

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Mothering: A bastion of woo targeted at young mothers

Post author By Orac
Post date January 21, 2011
355 Comments on Mothering: A bastion of woo targeted at young mothers

Over the last three weeks, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) has been publishing a multipart expose by investigative journalist Brian Deer that enumerated in detail the specifics of how a British gastroenterologist turned hero of the anti-vaccine movement had committed scientific fraud by falsifying key aspects of case reports that he used as the basis […]

Tags antivaccine, homeopathy, Mothering, quackery, vaccines

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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.”