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The anti-vaccine movement, cranks, and "pseudo-expertise"
added on 06 Nov 2009
Over the last week or so, I've been confronted full bore with cranks, staring down the barrel, if you will, of a crank shotgun, one barrel being the anti-vaccine movement in general (with J.B. Handley and his misogyny being the buckshot, so to speak) and the other being Suzanne Somers and her des...
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The anti-vaccine movement, cranks, and "pseudo-expertise"
posted to Respectful Insolence on 05 Nov 2009
Over the last week or so, I've been confronted full bore with cranks, staring down the barrel, if you will, of a crank shotgun, one barrel being the anti-vaccine movement in general (with J.B. Handley and his misogyny being the buckshot, so to speak) and the other being Suzanne Somers and her des...
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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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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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Pseudo-expertise versus science-based medicine
posted to Science-Based Medicine on 09 Nov 2009
I am a skeptic. My support for science-based medicine, as important as it is and as much time, sweat, and treasure I spend supporting it, is not the be-all and end-all of my skepticism, which derives from a scientific world view. That’s why, every so often, I like to step back from medicine a bit...
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