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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

More evidence that anti-vaccine beliefs kill

Vaccines save lives. In fact, they arguably save more lives than any other medical intervention devised by human beings. Unfortunately, the converse is also true. Anti-vaccine beliefs and the vaccine refusal that results from them kill. They leave children vulnerable to preventable diseases, and, sadly, here’s yet more evidence that this is true: At least […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Medicine Politics

Anti-vaccine activism, not autism activism

Remember how I said that I was trying to take it easy this week? I still am, but there’s something bugging me enough to draw me out of my grant-induced cocoon for a little while in order to pontificate on it in the not-so-Respectfully Insolent way that I am so often wont to do. True, […]

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The last Skeptics’ Circle of 2009…

…is fast approaching, this time to be hosted at Life, The Universe, and One Brow. Let’s make 2009 go out in style, skepticism-wise, by submitting the best skeptical blogging to the Circle for one New Year’s Eve blowout! Blog-specific instructions can be found here, and general guidelines are here.

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Cancer Clinical trials Medicine Science

The revenge of cell phones and cancer strikes back yet again in the never-ending controversy…

NOTE: Orac is on semi-vacation this week, trying very hard to recharge his Tarial cells. Actually, although he is at home, he is spending much of his time in his Sanctum Sanctorum (i.e., his home office) working on an R01 for the February submission cycle. Given that the week between Christmas and New Years Day […]

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Is it just me, or is there a bit of a disconnect here?

Seen in a parking lot while shopping about three weeks ago: I sense a disconnect between the two messages contained on the back of a very large SUV…