"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).

Category: Antivaccine nonsense

Tomorrow, antivaxers march on Washington, and, boy, are they excited!

Post author By Orac
Post date March 30, 2017
236 Comments on Tomorrow, antivaxers march on Washington, and, boy, are they excited!

This is the banner that antivaxers will be marching under. Why is it that they always try to conflate "freedom" with the ability to let disease run rampant?

Antivaxers are marching on Washington tomorrow, as they did in 2008. The cast is different (other than Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Barbara Loe Fisher), but the dangerous pseudoscientific is the same.

Tags Andrew Wakefield, antivaccine, Donald Trump, Gulf War syndrome, Kent Heckenlively, Revolution for Truth, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., vaccines, Vaxxed

Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Out of tragedy, a campaign to increase vaccine uptake in Michigan

Post author By Orac
Post date March 24, 2017
74 Comments on Out of tragedy, a campaign to increase vaccine uptake in Michigan

I’ve written before about how our vaccination rate here in Michigan are…suboptimal. Indeed, a couple of years ago, health officials were so alarmed at the increases in personal belief exemptions to school vaccine mandates that a new regulation was instituted that require parents seeking nonmedical exemptions to school vaccine mandates to travel to an office […]

Tags antivaccine, Francesca McNally, Franny Strong, I Vaccinate, Michigan, pertussis, vaccines, Veronica McNally, whooping cough

Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Massive measles outbreak in Romania: A warning to the US?

Post author By Orac
Post date March 21, 2017
119 Comments on Massive measles outbreak in Romania: A warning to the US?

Beginning a little over a year ago, Romania has been enduring a massive measles outbreak. The cause is familiar: Low MMR uptake below what is needed for herd immunity. Is this a warning to the US?