|
Like every other group of cranks, the anti-vaccine movement makes up for their total lack of supporting evidence with emotional appeals. They know that they can exploit a single vaccine injury (or even a bogus vaccine injury) to sell fear and that this is far more persuasive than statistical data looking [...] Just in case you haven’t heard, a UK General Medical Council’s Fitness to Practise Panel found sufficient evidence to suggest “serious professional misconduct” on the part of Andrew Wakefield and his colleagues, who published the very first paper that insinuated a link between autism and the MMR vaccine. Further, The Lancet has retracted the original [...] This is a something I originally wrote for Skepticamp. Unfortunately, I was unable to lock in actors in time to perform it. Still, I hope you folks enjoy seeing this piece in this form. Last Night on the News A NEWS DESK. PATTERSON SMILES and TAMMY TWINKLE sit behind the desk. PATTERSON Published by The Penguin Press, 2009 First of all, I’d like to thank everyone who contributed to our discussion last week on atheism and skepticism. I think it’s fantastic that we have a community in which we can talk about these things. I want to give a special thanks to Michael De Dora for agreeing [...] 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. [...] 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 [...] I don’t generally like getting embroiled in the anti-vaccination thing. There’s two reasons. First off, I have no access to any sort of first or even second hand source on the matter outside of the wide variety of blogs I read, and even though I feel I am looking to smarter sources than Jenny McCarthy [...] 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 [...] |
|
|
Copyright © 2010 Gotham Skeptic - All Rights Reserved |
|