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Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Flea talks reason, and the antivax hordes descend

Dr. Flea’s a guy after my own heart. He’s been blogging about vaccines, and now he’s getting into specific diseases. He’s posted an installment about the vaccine against Haemophilus influenza type B: The first American children to receive the Hib vaccine are turning 20 years old this year. Flea wasn’t practicing medicine in the pre-Hib […]

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Announcements Blogging

It’s official

As hard as it is to believe, it’s official. It appears that Respectful Insolence won the 2006 Weblog Awards as Best Medical/Health Issues blog. I had waited to announce this until it was official, plus a little time because I still couldn’t believe it. It would also appear that one other ScienceBlog, Pharyngula, edged out […]

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Announcements

Grand Rounds, vol. 3, no. 12

The latest Grand Rounds has been posted at Nurse Ratched’s Place. This time around it’s, appropriately enough, a Charlie Brown Christmas theme.

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Medicine

New vaccine blog

Well this looks interesting, a new blog by the author of Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine’s Greatest Lifesaver, Arthur Allen. Looks like something I may have to check out. Allen captures why various conditions like autism are so readily attributed by parents to vaccines: The history of vaccination is criss-crossed with controversies. The allegation […]

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Evolution Religion Science

Gideon’s backlash (a.k.a. Darwin’s revenge)

Here’s a great idea: I was staying in a hotel in New York earlier this year, and I noticed that as well as the usual Gideon’s bible, there was also a copy of the Quran. So that got me thinking – why limit the principle to religious books, why not get some science in there […]