Dangerous Legal Games

(Image Pelham Library)

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 [...]

Is this a media tipping point?

I’m not sure I should be even writing this article.  I’m worried I’m going to encounter some kind of quantum news effects, where if I somehow manage to probe into the inner workings of American Media, maybe I’ll accidentally send one electron flying off in the wrong direction, letting off some cascade that erases exactly [...]

Media and Skepticism and Baloney

Howard Schneider, founding dean of the Stony Brook University School of Journalism, speaks at NECSS (photo by Larry Auerbach)

My post on Monday addressed Dr. Paul Offit’s lecture on the anti-vaccination movement and how I felt that, even though the lecture was interesting in it’s own right, it was information already widely disseminated throughout the [...]

In this cat’s opinion

NECSS, The Northeast Conference on Science & Skepticism, was my first skeptical meeting. And since I was helping out behind the scenes, I may have a slightly biased view of the event. But I actually came away with a very different impression than that of my fellow blogger, The Quixotic Man (TQM). And since I [...]

Herding the Cats

Dr. Paul Offit – Pro-Vaccine Luminary (photo by Mark Bellncula)

In case you just stumbled upon this blog and have not checked out the website for the New York City Skeptics in the past several months, this past Saturday we held the first ever Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism, the NECSS.  I highly doubt [...]

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