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Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Candidate #1 for stupidest attack from a mercury maven ever

Those who still desperately cling to the concept that mercury in thimerosal in vaccines causes autism have been known to write some really stupid stuff trying to justify their position or attack someone else’s rebuttal of the whole “hypothesis.” This week has produced a bumper crop of such fallacy-laden “defenses” of the thimerosal gravy train–I […]

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Blogging Medicine

There’s Flea! And the news is not good.

Bummer. A while back, I asked, “Where’s Flea?” The question was asked in response to the mysterious disappearance of his blog a couple of weeks ago, leaving only a blank Blogger blog. Flea, as you may remember, was one of my favorite physician-bloggers. A pediatrician, he consistently provided pithy and interesting commentary on life as […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Friday Woo Medicine Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Your Friday Dose of Woo: Woo ascends

Let’s face it, energy woo can get boring. It’s always “resonance this” and “vibration that,” to the point that it all starts to sound the same. Such is the reason that I’ve become somewhat reluctant to take on more energy woo for Your Friday Dose of Woo. It takes a truly bizarre bit of energy […]

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Medicine

Anteater Wrestlemania

Now this is how you provoke a tamandua! Tamandua mexicana

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

The mercury militia go to court

I’ve been a bit remiss when it comes to writing about the lunacy in which it is claimed that vaccines cause autism, allegedly due to the mercury in the thimerosal preservative that was in most childhood vaccines until the end of 2002, when it was removed from all but flu vaccines. It turns out that […]