vaccines

Happy Darwintine’s Day! Vaccines Don’t Give You Non-Australian Accents

by podblack on February 14, 2010

*Sigh* Astoundingly busy Valentine’s day weekend, including sorting out travel plans for the end of the year and catching up with family. Just by scheduling everything it’s kind of squeezed out getting stuff online – so, distract yourself with the new Homologous Legs blog post: Carnival of the Godless, No. 135 – Darwintine’s Day Edition! [...]

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Lancet Finally Retracts False Wakefield Paper

by podblack on February 2, 2010

On the heels of the wonderful news that Bill Gates and his wife are investing ten billion dollars to get vaccines to kids who need them… “Vaccines are a miracle,” added Melinda Gates. “With just a few doses, they can prevent deadly diseases for a lifetime. We’ve made vaccines our priority at the Gates Foundation [...]

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Jenny McCarthy Body Count

by podblack on March 29, 2009

I’m involved with the site Stop Jenny McCarthy (www.stopjenny.com), a site that was started by another member (who wishes to remain anon) in response to the anti-vaccination claims of Jenny McCarthy. Soon, this site will be launched: Jenny McCarthy Body Count. It’s really quite clever – clicking on the links for the preventable cases and [...]

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Seriously Cool – Stephen Fry Weighs In On Ben Goldacre Vs Jeni Barnett

by podblack on February 10, 2009

From the comments on Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science site: The fatuity of the Jeni Barnett woman’s manner – her blend of self-righteousness and stupidity, her simply quite staggering inability to grasp, pursue or appreciate a sequence of logical steps – all these are signature characteristics of Britain these days. The lamentable truth is that most [...]

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LBC 97.3 Jeni Barnett’s MMR Scaremongering – Full Transcript

by podblack on February 7, 2009

The Full Transcript: Part 1 — Science Punk Part 2 — The Lay Scientist Part 3 — PodBlack Cat Part 4 — The Skeptic’s Book Part 5 — Science Punk Part 6 — Holford Watch The Youtube Is Here:

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Jeni Barnett On LBC 97.3FM UK Radio – Vs John From Epsom

by podblack on February 6, 2009

From about twelve minutes in to about nineteen minutes in of the interview previously blogged about – a transcript: JB: You just heard from Tracey, four kids, became a homeopath on the back of thinking of whether she should have her first child immunised. And this is on the back of us being the ‘Dirty [...]

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Skeptical Inquirers Vs Jenny McCarthy in Australia’s ‘Women’s Day’

by podblack on December 30, 2008

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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Autism Rights Movement – NY Times Magazine

by podblack on June 8, 2008

Fascinating article I just found – having covered some of the issues earlier in a blog post (“Autism Spectrum And DORE Speculations“), I think that there’s a very good reason this has become ‘most commented’ on the NY Times Magazine. It even covers some of the ‘vaccine’ claims: The Autism Rights Movement – ‘A new [...]

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