"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).

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Twitter as an amplifier of antivaccine messages

Post author By Orac
Post date June 9, 2015
104 Comments on Twitter as an amplifier of antivaccine messages

A network map of the antivaccine movement resistance to SB 277.

Before 2005, I did pay attention to the antivaccine movement, but it wasn’t one of my biggest priorities when it comes to promoting science-based medicine. That all changed when Robert F. Kennedy published his incredibly conspiracy-packed black whole of antivaccine pseudoscience entitled Deadly Immunity. Sadly, almost exactly ten years later, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. hasn’t […]

Tags antivaccine, California, conservative, libertarian, network, SB 277, Twitter, vaccine

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The Daily Show: Hilarious segment about vaccines, not so hilariously wrong about the politics of vaccine denialism

Post author By Orac
Post date June 4, 2014
145 Comments on The Daily Show: Hilarious segment about vaccines, not so hilariously wrong about the politics of vaccine denialism

Not surprisingly, being a guy who leans mildly left, I like The Daily Show. Jon Stewart and his writers are incredibly adept at skewering all manner of bovine excrement, be it political, scientific, or otherwise. In particular, the way Stewart and company skewered the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) for its promotion of […]

Tags antivaccine, Bill Posey, conservative, Dan Burton, Jon Stewart, liberal, Ohio, Paul Offit, Samantha Bee, The Daily Show, vaccines

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