"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: National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986

The annals of “I’m not antivaccine,” part 14: Vaccine “Trafficking” and beyond

Post author By Orac
Post date February 13, 2015
175 Comments on The annals of “I’m not antivaccine,” part 14: Vaccine “Trafficking” and beyond

If there’s one good thing about the ongoing Disneyland measles outbreak that is continuing to spread, if there can be a “good thing” about an outbreak of vaccine-preventable disease that didn’t have to happen, it’s that it’s put the antivaccine movement on the defensive. They are definitely feeling the heat. Their reaction to that heat […]

Tags Age of Autism, antivaccine, Autism, Human trafficking, Laura Hayes, National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, pseudoscience, quackery, rape, Vaccine Court, vaccines

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The Canary Party and Rob Schneider versus the Vaccine Court: Guess who wins?

Post author By Orac
Post date September 12, 2013
169 Comments on The Canary Party and Rob Schneider versus the Vaccine Court: Guess who wins?

My goodness, when it rains, it pours, to use a cliche. (And I’m not about anything if not throwing in the odd cliche in my writing from time to time.) Just yesterday, I discussed the resurrection of an antivaccine zombie meme, namely the claim that Maurice Hilleman admitted that the polio vaccine that was contaminated […]

Tags antivaccine, Autism, Barbara Loe Fisher, National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, National Vaccine Information Center, National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, Rob Schneider, The Canary Party, Vaccine Court, vaccines

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