Category: Antivaccine nonsense

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A “teachable moment”: Guggie Daly goes full Orwellian to promote antivaccine beliefs

Antivaxer Guggie Daly thinks that manipulating and twisting speech will help spread her antivaccine message. She could be right, but fortunately she's just bad at it.

Antivaxer Guggie Daly thinks that manipulating and twisting speech will help spread her antivaccine message. She could be right, but fortunately for prescience advocates she’s just really bad at it.

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SB 277 works. Period. No wonder antivaxers hate it.

Vaccine uptake in California, pre- and post-SB 277. Eat it, antivaxers.

The numbers are in. SB 277, the new California law banning nonmedical exemptions, works. Vaccine uptake is up, and personal belief exemptions are down dramatically.

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It’s a strange world, after all: Orac vs. The Shat and fake news over…Autism Speaks?

How Orac imagines William Shatner as appearing when he's Tweeting.

Orac is attacked by Capt. Kirk using fake news over the course of several days. Truly, it is a strange world.

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Make measles great again? Our Michigan legislature is doing its best to bring back epidemics of vaccine-preventable diseases.

The depths of stupidity to which the Michigan state legislature will stoop never cease to amaze me. This time, legislators are doing their damnedest to make measles great again.

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Antivaxers marched on Washington last week. It was less than impressive.

The mass of antivaxers yearning to be free to let their children suffer from vaccine-preventable diseases descends upon the White House.

A few dozen antivaccine activists descended upon Washington, DC to protest and lobby their legislators. The protest itself was not impressive, but pro-science advocates shouldn’t let this pathetic march lead them to be complacent. Antivaxers are meeting with legislators, and President Trump is sympathetic to their aims.