The name of this band is damned near perfect: No, not the Shut-Ups (although that’s a pretty cool band name, too). Anyone who reads this blog would know that I’m referring to Down With The Woo. I wonder if their music is any good. If so, they could become the blog band of Respectful Insolenceâ¢. […]
Before I move on to other topics, I can’t resist one last comment about the corrupt and sleazy Andrew Wakefield, the man who, with the help of heaping piles of cash from lawyers, almost singlehandedly produced a scare over the possibility that the MMR vaccine causes autism so large that vaccination rates in the U.K. […]
In case anyone from Southern California of a skeptical bent is interested in attending the debate about whether thimerosal in vaccines causes autism, here is the event information that I mentioned yesterday: Vaccines and Autism, Is There a Connection? A Thoughtful Debate Saturday, January 13, 2007 Featuring: David Kirby – Author, Evidence of Harm and […]
Better late than never, I guess. I should have announced three days ago that the polls are now open to vote for the 2006 Medical Weblog Awards. Polls will close at midnight on Sunday, January 14, 2007 (PST), and the winners will be announced on Friday, January 19, 2007. I happen to be nominated for […]
Technical difficulties
Just a word to my readers. The ScienceBlogs site has been having technical difficulties since yesterday. You may have noticed that the load times were very slow yesterday and that at times the site was even completely unavailable. The same thing happened for a while this morning, and early this morning I couldn’t get into […]
