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

This is the banner that antivaxers will be marching under. Why is it that they always try to conflate "freedom" with the ability to let disease run rampant?

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.

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Out of tragedy, a campaign to increase vaccine uptake in Michigan

I’ve written before about how our vaccination rate here in Michigan are…suboptimal. Indeed, a couple of years ago, health officials were so alarmed at the increases in personal belief exemptions to school vaccine mandates that a new regulation was instituted that require parents seeking nonmedical exemptions to school vaccine mandates to travel to an office […]

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Massive measles outbreak in Romania: A warning to the US?

Bran Castle, Romania
Bran Castle, Romania

Beginning a little over a year ago, Romania has been enduring a massive measles outbreak. The cause is familiar: Low MMR uptake below what is needed for herd immunity. Is this a warning to the US?

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In the era of Donald Trump, will the states save us from antivaxers?

It's in the states where the real sausage gets made with respect to vaccine policy.

There might be an antivaxer in the White House right now, but it’s at the state level where vaccine policy and school vaccine mandates are decided.

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Hallelujah! The mainstream press finally notices quackademic medicine!

Imagine those buildings are an academic hospital. This is what's happening in medical academia.

I’ve been writing a long time about a phenomenon that I like to refer to as “quackademic medicine,” defined as the infiltration into academic medical centers and medical school of unscientific and pseudoscientific treatment modalities that are unproven or disproven. Few seem to listen. That’s why it’s reassuring to see a mainstream news publication get it (mostly) right about this phenomenon.