anti-vax

Japanese physician wins prize for publicly battling anti-vaxxers: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/11/qa-japanese-physician-snares-prize-battling-antivaccine-campaigners (I hope this is not behind a paywall). Dr. Riko Muranaka has been fighting to reverse an anti-HPV vaccine campaign in...

Remember 3 years ago when the story broke of an attractive young woman who came down with a serious and bizarre case of dystonia after receiving a swine flu vaccination. She was unable to walk forward without going into spasms, but could walk backwards and run forwards. She also developed a...

Folks, we need to spread the word far & wide on this one: http://skepticalteacher.wordpress.com/2010/11/20/anti-vaccination-psa-coming-to-a-theater-near-you-literally/ Cheers - MM

Holly Robinson Peete speaking at Freshmen Convocation (Anti-Vax) I recently found out that Holly Robinson Peete is speaking at my university, California State University Nothridge, next Thursday for the Freshmen Convocation. This freshmen class is part of a common reading program in which they...

Nice segment this morning on a book by Michael Specter called "Denialism": http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120139776 He talks about the anti-vax movement, organic foods, and other aspects of modern life where folks are using anything but rationality and evidence to come to...

This article was presented on another website, and the poster has asked for it to be debunked. "Hepatitis-B Vaccine Triples the Risk of Autism in Infant Boys" The article is dated October 8, 2009. Here are the opening paragraphs: . The article also includes a section on "The Evidence...

Is Oprah Winfrey giving us bad medicine? (The Star is a major Canadian newspaper). The author is David Gorski. Woos are out in force in the comments, though; many saying how the medical establishment is "corrupt" and some even going so far as to accuse the article author of being "bought" by...