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Even if you haven’t yet read Time’s new article, Who’s Afraid of Jenny McCarthy?, I bet most of you have answered the question already. The author, Karl Taro Greenfeld, is no stranger to the issue of autism and wrote a book about his autistic brother. While the article takes a hard-line on McCarthy’s belief that [...] (For further discussion please read the continuation here.) No this is not a new game akin to 6-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon. Unlike Sarah Palin, I don’t read “all” periodicals, but I have a few favorites… the HuffPo is not one of them. Their editorials tend to come off as tirades by individuals who like to hear themselves talk… type… whatever. [...] I don’t usually write a post that solely tells you to read another blog post, but in the strange case of Desiree Jennings, Steve Novella has become something of a primary reference. I recommend his post on this case penned at Neurologica. Desiree, if you will recall, was the young woman who presented with a mysterious [...] Swine flu outbreaks by country (by HotWikiBR) A meaty conversation with John Snyder at last week’s Drinking Skeptically, produced a lot of food for thought, and I spent Thanksgiving weekend chewing over some of his comments in addition to my turkey. We have learned so much from the outreach that doctors and researchers like John [...] Bill Maher has been receiving a lot of criticism, but not for his political views or his satirical take on society, or even his anti-religious propaganda. Bill Maher is receiving criticism because he has taken up the flag against “western medicine” and has become yet another celebrity vehicle for spreading misinformation, specifically on vaccine safety. [...] Natural Hemlock, much better than the fake stuff. Still feeling flushed from my article last week about a potential change in how science news was reported, I was caught, almost unaware, by a story from a California NBC affiliate titled, “Can Natural Remedies Prevent H1N1?” Since they’d posed it as a question, I felt certain [...] A new epidemic is creeping across parts of the US. It primarily affects infants and children of higher socio-economic status, and it has the potential to cause horrible illness and death. It has already begun to cause outbreaks in scattered communities throughout the country. If it is not contained quickly, more carnage will result. The [...] 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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