More arrogance of ignorance in the antivaccine movement
After a digression yesterday, it’s time to get back to business. Don’t get me wrong. Yesterday’s post was business. It was definitely something important (to me) that needed to be said, in my...
View ArticleThinker. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it...
After yesterday’s detailed analysis of a study that’s being touted far and wide as “evidence” that vitamin C cures cancer, I thought I deserved a bit of a break. No, that doesn’t mean I’m going to take...
View ArticlePediatricians versus the Dunning-Kruger effect on vaccines
I don’t know if I could be a pediatrician right now. True, I probably don’t have the personality to be a pediatrician, at least not a primary care pediatrician on the front lines. After all, if I did,...
View ArticleWho knew? My state’s vaccine personal belief exemption rate stinks!
One aspect of my life that’s kind of strange is how I’ve basically ended up back where I started. I was born and raised in southeast Michigan (born in the city of Detroit, actually, although my parents...
View ArticleWho knew? My state’s vaccine personal belief exemption rate stinks! (Part 2:...
After yesterday’s post on the depressingly high (and increasing, apparently) rate of personal belief exemptions to vaccination requirements for entering school in the state of Michigan, I felt the need...
View ArticleGet out the popcorn: Science Babe vs. The Food Babe
I’ve spend considerable time documenting the utter pseudoscience, misinformation, and downright idiocy about “chemicals” in food regularly inflicted on the public by the misguided “food activist” named...
View ArticleMore antivaccine stylings from someone who is Dunning-Kruger personified
I was measured, science-based, and reasonable in yesterday’s post about the new American Cancer Society guidelines for screening mammography (which is obviously why that post garnered so few comments,...
View ArticleWhat makes a physician become an antivaxer? (Part 2)
Orac contemplates a reason why doctors become antivaccine that he missed the last time he discussed this topic.
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