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Antivaccination propaganda about the Poling case: A Saturday morning link roundup

Yesterday was annoying. It started out hearing about the vaccine injury case conceded by the government in a story on NPR on during my drive into work. As I walked through the clinic waiting area on the way to my lab, the TVs in the waiting rooms were all on CNN, where–you guessed it!–there was […]

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Do you think vaccines cause autism?

There’s an idiotic poll up at Larry King Live with the question: “Do you believe vaccines cause or contribute to autism?” Idiotic, because it’s science that says whether or not vaccines cause or contribute to autism. Whether the public thinks they do or not is irrelevant to the biological, medical, and clinical science that say, […]

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The new strategy of the antivaccination movement: Autism is a “misdiagnosis” for mitochondrial disease

I should have seen this one coming a mile away in light of the concession of vaccine injury in the case of one child that led to the incredibly shrinking causation claim when it comes to vaccines and autism. Having had it conclusively demonstrated through several large studies in multiple countries that mercury in vaccines […]

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Still more evidence that it’s all about the vaccines: Behold the power of the mercury militia, part 2

In case you had any doubt that it’s about vaccines and the concept of vaccination itself, here’s video of the protest held outside of the American Academy of Pediatrics a couple of weeks ago: I’m not sure it was such a great idea to release video of this protest, given how tiny the demonstration looks […]

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Best line about David Kirby I’ve heard in a long time

A couple of days ago, I wrote about a particularly deceptive and idiotic article by David Kirby about the settling of a case of vaccine injury by the U.S. government. Fellow skeptical physician Steve Novella couldn’t resist taking a shot at Kirby as well and in doing so came up with one of the best […]