Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Ah boy. Well, I honestly can’t say that she’s responsible, but I’m head-desking all the same. Measles Outbreak Triggered by Unvaccinated Child – from Health Day: What began as a family trip to Switzerland in 2008 ended up as a public health nightmare in California. The family’s 7-year-old boy, who was intentionally unvaccinated against measles, [...]
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Via the BA and the SWIFT article: As you may know, the JREF is sponsoring a vaccination drive in Las Vegas to coincide with The Amaz!ng Meeting 7, to be held from July 9-12. This drive was the brainchild of pediatrician and skeptic Joe Albietz, who has worked very hard to get this to happen. [...]
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Just a quick note — very, very busy this week and a workshop (again!) on the Friday and probably another interview to conduct. I was told of this via the Stop Jenny McCarthy contributors: As detailed on Pharyngula: Oprah asks so sweetly: What Should Jenny Do? You’ve seen it all over the news…Jenny McCarthy, one [...]
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Left Brain Right Brain Blog / Autism Blog, a site I first subscribed to when it featured on the blog carnival Encephalon, has picked up on the research inadequacies of Jim Carrey (an occasional film star, more often featured fodder in desperate C-grade comedies where the only discernible plot-element is the range of his flexible [...]
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Just a quick addition to this post – thanks to www.stopjenny.com for the tip! Alison Singer, the woman who resigned from her position at Autism Speaks because of their pandering to the anti-vaccine crowd, has now launched a new organization, the Autism Science Foundation. Here’s the opening of their press release: April 18, 2009 — [...]
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The wonderful internetz will be deprived of my glorious presence for much of this month. There’s several reasons that come to mind: The temperature here has resulted in only particular room in the house to be the most comfortable for typing in – and it happens to be the room with all the academically-minded books [...]
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Now that I have your attention – let’s have a little recap as to one of the reasons why I blog. It’s because of people like Dr Rachael Dunlop. Dr Dunlop (most commonly known as ‘Dr Rachie’ on the Skeptic Zone podcast) is just one of the many, many scientists out there and one of [...]
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When I’m not doing someone else’s qualitative research for their PhD (180 interviews done, 20 more to go over the next two days!), I’m usually working on my own dissertation (what is probably the largest paranormal, pseudoscientific and conspiracy-theory belief survey done yet in Australia); trying to sort out time to contribute to the Skeptic [...]
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