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When critics disagree with me, I'm a Pharma Shill. When critics disagree with a woman, it gets sexual.
added on 01 Nov 2009
Case in point: A few days ago, I sang the praises of last week's article in Wired magazine by Amy Wallace on pediatric infectious disease and immunology specialist, Dr Paul Offit, and the anti-vaccination movement in the US. Wallace's article has been widely heralded by the scientific community...
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When critics disagree with me, I'm a Pharma Shill. When critics disagree with a woman, it gets sexual.
posted to Terra Sigillata on 27 Oct 2009
Case in point: A few days ago, I sang the praises of last week's article in Wired magazine by Amy Wallace on pediatric infectious disease and immunology specialist, Dr Paul Offit, and the anti-vaccination movement in the US. Wallace's article has been widely heralded by the scientific community...
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The effective wordsmithing of Amy Wallace
posted to Science-Based Medicine on 27 Oct 2009
One of the most engaging and clearly-written pieces of science journalism over the last year or so was published in Wired magazine last week. Now in the midst of a firestorm of attention, Amy Wallace’s, “An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All,” is part intervie...
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Tweetlinks, 10-28-09
posted to A Blog Around The Clock on 29 Oct 2009
Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people): Science Fiction has no...
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J.B. Handley of the anti-vaccine group Generation Rescue: Misogynist attacks on journalists who champion science
posted to Science-Based Medicine on 31 Oct 2009
There’s been something I’ve been meaning to write about all week, but only just got around to it. There were lots of other things going on at my other online locale, and this topic is such old hat for so many that I really wasn’t sure if it was worth bothering with. My reluctance may also, sadly,...
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posted to Terra Sigillata on 28 Oct 2009
Just a quick follow-up from our last two posts about Amy Wallace's article, "An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All," in Wired magazine about vaccine developer Dr Paul Offit and the anti-vaccination movement: Wired has now compiled Wallace's tweets from the las...
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The anti-vaccine movement strikes back using misogyny
posted to Respectful Insolence on 30 Oct 2009
The little matter of finding out that the actor who played Data on Star Trek: The Next Generation appears to have anti-vaccine proclivities sidetracked me from something that I had actually wanted to blog about yesterday. Specifically, it's something that my blog bud Abel Pharmboy has been hittin...
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Mumps the word | Bad Astronomy
posted to The Loom on 30 Oct 2009
Hey, antivaxxers! I just wanted to send you guys a quick note of thanks for all the work you do. For example, that whole thing about getting mumps to resurge due to lower vaccinations rates in the UK? That’s very cool. We all missed mumps so much. Also, the way you guys dupe parents is simply b...
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The Boys Call Out Misogyny Among the Anti-Vaxxers
posted to On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess on 02 Nov 2009
The other evening I was laying bed, watching the first season of NCIS on DVD as our technician ordered me too, and being generally hot when I got an email from one of my favorite bloggers in the universe - the great anti-anti-vaxx crusader Orac from over at the Respectful Insolence blog. I am aw...
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Some tactics always stink.
posted to Adventures in Ethics and Science on 02 Nov 2009
Abel and Orac and Isis have recently called attention to the flak Amy Wallace had been getting for her recent article in WIRED Magazine, "An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All". The flak Wallace has gotten, as detailed in her Twitter feed (from which Abel con...
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Amy Wallace On The Anti-Vaccination Movement: Superb, Engaging Science Journalism
posted to Getting Better with Doctor Val on 02 Nov 2009
One of the most engaging and clearly-written pieces of science journalism over the last year or so was published in Wired magazine last week. Amy Wallace’s, “An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All,” is part interview with rotavirus vaccine developer, pediatric ...
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posted to Respectful Insolence on 02 Nov 2009
...Isis shows us why by calling out the anti-vaccine movement in general and J.B. Handley in particular, for sexist attacks on Amy Wallace, who wrote the excellent article for WIRED about how the anti-vaccine movement endangers public health. True, I did e-mail her for advice in letting feminist...
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