Dangerous Legal Games

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The anti-vaccine community is at it again, launching inane legal assaults in an attempt to gain a foothold in their war against science and reason. This time, Barbara Loe Fisher, infamous founder of the ironically-named National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), has launched a libel suit against Paul Offit, renowned vaccine expert and [...]

A Lesson in Humor for the Age of Autism Crowd

Unlike others who write for Gotham Skeptic, my expertise is not actually science.  I hold a BFA in Dramatic Writing from the Tisch school of the Arts at NYU.  My thesis was a “Rescue Me” spec where Lou attempts to pleasure himself while staring at a picture of Franco.  For this, I was awarded an [...]

Age of Projectionism

The anti-vaccination quacks at Age of Autism (AoA) decided that instead of addressing individual refutations from the bloggers coming out of the incredibly successful Scienceblogs, that they’d just launch one big ad hominem attack on the entire site. As always, don’t expect them to include any actual science in their rants. They don’t understand it [...]

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