The big pharma conspiracy once again crushes the idea that mercury in...
THE PAST IS PROLOGUE Location: Central New Jersey, deep within the brick and steel of a secret pharma base. Year: 1999. A shadowy figure dressed in gray, bald, and stroking a white cat enters a...
View ArticleThe “no debate” debate
I like the word “manufactroversy.” It’s a lovely made up word that combines the two words “manufactured controversy” and is, to boil it down, defined as the art of creating a controversy where none...
View ArticleQuoth the Institute of Medicine: The current vaccine schedule is safe and...
I sense another disturbance in the antivaccine Force. Yes, I realize that it was just a couple of days ago that I sensed a previous disturbance rippling through the antivaccine Force. That’s when...
View ArticleGet out the popcorn! This internecine war among antivaccinationists is...
Alright, I give up. I’m getting out the popcorn. It’s a Friday night, and it’s on, baby! It’s so on that I’m breaking one of my blogging rules and writing up a blog post on Friday night, which is when...
View ArticleGet out the popcorn! This internecine war among antivaccinationists is...
It’s been well over two weeks since I urged everyone to get out the popcorn and sit back to enjoy the internecine war going on over in the antivaccine movement. The reason for my chuckling was the way...
View ArticleCan antivaccinationists knock it off with the autism Holocaust analogies...
It’s very clear that many antivaccinationists hate autistic children. The language they use to describe them makes that very clear. Such children are “damaged” (by vaccines, of course); the parents’...
View ArticleCan antivaccinationists knock it off with the autism Holocaust analogies...
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is despicable. I just wanted to get that off my chest. (Do clear Plexiglass boxes full of multicolored blinky multicolored lights even have chests?) The reason for my outburst...
View ArticleHow “they” view “us” one more time: Poor, poor, pitiful Dan Olmsted
Just three days ago, I updated my ongoing series How “They” View “Us.” This time around, I used Mike Adams’ likening of various pro-science activists, including Steve Novella and myself, among others,...
View ArticleAn “un-American suppression” of antivaccine views or good reporting?
I’ve been writing a lot of posts on what I like to call the “antivaccine dogwhistle.” In politics, a “dog whistle” refers to rhetoric that sounds to the average person to be reasonable and even...
View ArticleThe long, sordid antivaccine history of Donald Trump
Note added 9/17/2015: I knew it. The vaccine issue came up during the second debate and Donald Trump repeated basically the same nonsensical antivaccine tropes that he’s been repeating for at least...
View ArticleThe autism “Holocaust”? Why antivaccine advocates are not autism advocates
A typical response to a charge of being antivaccine coming from someone whose rhetoric is definitely antivaccine is to clutch her pearls mightily and retort, “I’m not ‘anti-vaccine.’ I’m pro-vaccine...
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