"A statement of fact cannot be insolent." The miscellaneous ramblings of a surgeon/scientist on medicine, quackery, science, and pseudoscience (and anything else that interests him).

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SB 277 works. Period. No wonder antivaxers hate it.

Post author By Orac
Post date April 13, 2017
87 Comments on SB 277 works. Period. No wonder antivaxers hate it.

The numbers are in. SB 277, the new California law banning nonmedical exemptions, works. Vaccine uptake is up, and personal belief exemptions are down dramatically.

Tags antivaccine, SB 277, vaccine

Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Politics Popular culture Quackery

Make measles great again? Our Michigan legislature is doing its best to bring back epidemics of vaccine-preventable diseases.

Post author By Orac
Post date April 5, 2017
42 Comments on Make measles great again? Our Michigan legislature is doing its best to bring back epidemics of vaccine-preventable diseases.

The depths of stupidity to which the Michigan state legislature will stoop never cease to amaze me. This time, legislators are doing their damnedest to make measles great again.

Tags antivaccine, HB 4425, HB 4426, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, nonmedical exemption, Patrick Colbeck, personal belief exemption, SB 299, SB 300, Tom Barrett, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Politics Popular culture Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Antivaxers marched on Washington last week. It was less than impressive.

Post author By Orac
Post date April 4, 2017
143 Comments on Antivaxers marched on Washington last week. It was less than impressive.

A few dozen antivaccine activists descended upon Washington, DC to protest and lobby their legislators. The protest itself was not impressive, but pro-science advocates shouldn’t let this pathetic march lead them to be complacent. Antivaxers are meeting with legislators, and President Trump is sympathetic to their aims.

Tags antivaccine, Barbara Loe Fisher, Brian Hooker, Del Bigtree, Donald Trump, Jason Chaffetz, Rebecca Robbins, Revolution for Truth, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Sheila Ealey, Toni Bark, Tony Muhammad, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Politics Quackery

Tomorrow, antivaxers march on Washington, and, boy, are they excited!

Post author By Orac
Post date March 30, 2017
236 Comments on Tomorrow, antivaxers march on Washington, and, boy, are they excited!

Antivaxers are marching on Washington tomorrow, as they did in 2008. The cast is different (other than Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Barbara Loe Fisher), but the dangerous pseudoscientific is the same.

Tags Andrew Wakefield, antivaccine, Donald Trump, Gulf War syndrome, Kent Heckenlively, Revolution for Truth, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., vaccines, Vaxxed

Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Politics Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

The antivaccine conspiracy theory narrative: You want it darker?

Post author By Orac
Post date March 16, 2017
264 Comments on The antivaccine conspiracy theory narrative: You want it darker?

Every story must have a victim, a hero, and a villain, and the central antivaccine conspiracy myth is no different.

Tags Andrew Wakefield, antivaccine, conspiracy theories, conspiracy theory, Kent Heckenlively, Leonard Cohen, You Want It Darker

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