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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Biology Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Science Skepticism/critical thinking

Three dozen dead macaque monkeys later: Vaccines still don't cause autism

Rhesus macaque monkeys ask: "Why do we have to die so that you can dissect our brains to show what you already know? Vaccines don't cause autism."

One of the limitations constraining those of us who do human subjects research is that ethical considerations often prevent us from designing our clinical trials in what would be, from a strictly scientific standpoint, in the most methodologically rigorous way. For example, we can’t intentionally infect human beings with known inocula of deadly bacteria in […]

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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 […]