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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Politics

A hilariously conspiratorial justification by Clifford Shoemaker for harassing a blogger

I’ve written a lot about the legal thuggery perpetrated against autism blogger Kathleen Seidel by an unethical lawyer named Clifford Shoemaker, who issued a subpoena against her based on dubious conspiratorial thinking about her supposedly being a shill for big pharma. Shoemaker, in case you didn’t know, is a lawyer who represents litigants suing vaccine […]

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

Some monkey business in autism research (or, why it is not a good idea to provoke Orac)

Believe it or not, even I, Orac, sometimes get tired of blogging about antivaccination idiocy. Indeed, this week was just such a time. I hope you can’t blame me. After all, the last few months have been so chock-full of some of the most bizarre and annoying antics of antivaccinationists at such a frequent clip […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Beware and get ready, my U.K. readers…

…because the author of the book that fueled the rise of the mercury militia in 2005, that indefatigable purveyor of bad science, logical fallacies and bizarre speculations, that useful idiot that antivaccinationists all know and love, is coming to the U.K next month. Yes, I’m talking about David Kirby. Credulous blogger Ginger of Adventures in […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Politics

Bill Clinton brings the stupid home on autism

And I thought, whatever his other faults and whatever my disagreements with his politics,, that Bill Clinton was incredibly smart. Apparently I was wrong: “You do not want to bring your children into the world where we go on with the number of children who are born with autism tripling every 20 years, and nobody […]

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Antivaccinationists invade Bad Astronomy

Oh, no! Phil Plait did a great post on why vaccines do not cause autism. What’s his reward? To be invaded by antivaccinationists! I think you all know what to do. Please, go lend Phil some tactical air support, and I’ll be grateful.