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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Bioethics Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Remind me never to get on Brian Deer’s bad side

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. […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Politics Quackery

Anti-vaccination activist running for governor of the state of Colorado?

Unfortunately for them, folks in Colorado have a hard core anti-vaxer named Dawn Winkler running for governor on the Libertarian ticket. I’m hoping for their sakes that, as a third party candidate, that she has virtually no chance of winning. Check out some of her rhetoric posted on Whale.to seven years ago in response to […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Christopher Wanjek reads Kevin Trudeau’s latest book so that you don’t have to

It’s not your Friday Dose of Woo yet, but fear not. You’ll get your weekly dose of woo in due course. Kevin Trudeau is arguably the most prominent snakeoil salesmen of our time. I’ve leafed through his first book, Natural Cures “They” Don’t Want You to Know About at the bookstore and recoiled at the […]

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Autism Bioethics Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Antivaccination warriors vs. research ethics

It’s been a very interesting week for those of us who try to keep an eye on antivaccination warriors who scare mothers with claims based on either no science or bad science of dire consequences that will come from vaccinating their children. A very interesting week indeed, kind of like that old curse, “May you […]