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Kathleen Seidel is not alone, as attorney Clifford Shoemaker continues his fishing expedition

A couple of weeks ago, I commented about a frivolous, SLAPP-style subpoena directed at one of the most thorough, rational bloggers about autism out there, Kathleen Seidel by Clifford Shoemaker, the attorney for Rev. Lisa Sykes and her husband Seth Sikes, both of whom who are suing Bayer for alleged “vaccine damage” as a cause […]

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Another consequence of not vaccinating…

…death from pertussis. Delaying effective treatment by taking the baby to a naturopath first didn’t help either. With antivaccinationists making so much noise, look for more cases like the one above in your local emergency department soon. That will be the true legacy of the so-called “green our vaccines” movement.

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Stuff I didn’t have time to blog about…

I’m not normally one to do link roundups or Instapundit-style one sentence “link and comment” posts. Sure, I do them occasionally, but I think the reason that I don’t is that to me blogging is a way to express my views, not just to point to the views at others (in other words, because I’m […]

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In a fog and from a distance, Orac sees his hometown invaded

Regular readers may have noticed that the usual prodigious amount of verbiage has fallen off a bit over the last few days. That’s just because I’ve been very busy and not always around a reliable Internet connection. In some ways, I almost like the way I’ve been forced to write a bit better in that […]

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Scientific medicine denialism: A brief (by Orac standards) proposal

Between sessions here at the AACR meeting, I started thinking. (I realize that’s often a dangerous thing to do, but sometimes I can’t help myself.) What I was thinking about was my annual bit of “fluff with a bite,” the 2008 edition of “What is an altie?” Why, I don’t know, but I was. Then, […]