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Conflicts of interest among vaccine advocates: The Law of Contagion

In this post, I examine a concept of conflicts of interest among pro-vaccine advocates that resembles the Law of Contagion. If a vaccine expert has ever been in contact with pharma funding, he is still in contact with it, and it contaminates him forever.

I didn’t think I’d be revisiting this topic again so soon, but damned if Alice Dreger didn’t write something that comes pretty close to demanding that I do so. I tried to resist, but unfortunately could not. Basically, I’m getting really, really tired of Dreger. Why do I say that? It’s because I’m having a […]