Consumer Reports: The new Motrin?

Wonderingwilla emailed me a couple of days back with this link to a recent Consumer Reports article titled “Five products not to buy for your baby”. The mention of two AP-related paraphernalia – cosleepers and slings – has, like the babywearing Motrin ad last November, raised the ire of the AP/NP crowd. It hasn’t quite [...]

Prepare some tissues and some rotten tomatoes…

And then go watch this Australian TV feature:

New to the science-based blogosphere

I’ve been updating my blogroll today, and I’m happy to say that compared to…well, not too long ago, there are plenty of link-worthy new blogs out there.
Most of you probably already know Dr. Amy Tuteur from Homebirth Debate (which is staying in my blogroll even though it’s no longer active, because it’s a great [...]

Hope for a CMV vaccine

Cytomegalovirus, or CMV for short, belongs to the herpesvirus family, along with the herpes simplex, Epstein-Barr, and chickenpox virus. It causes a mononucleosis-like disease similar to EBV, mainly in teens and young adults (they don’t call it ‘the kissing disease’ for nothing!), and in children the primary infection may have no symptoms at all or [...]

Skeptical Parent Crossing #7 is up!

Over at Clashing Culture.
Have a blast!

Now you can not only feed the world…

Through websites such as Free Rice. Now you can vaccinate the world, too!
At givevaccines.org, you play a word game while donating milliliters of life-saving vaccines via the GAVI Alliance (Go visit their website if you’ve never heard of them, they do holy work).
I might put my meager Photoshop skills to work making a [...]

Pacifiers: they don’t suck as much as you thought

It’s no secret that APers don’t like pacifiers. Besides the fact that they’re made out of ‘unnatural’ materials such as plastic or latex, pacifiers serve as ‘mommy substitutes’ for the purpose of non-nutritive sucking, and we know that anything which fills in for Mommy is a bad, bad thing. When the AAP released its 2005 [...]

The (not quite) anti-CIO poster child: Macall Gordon, Part II

This is a continuation of my previous post, which analyzes the claims brought up in this poster by Macall Gordon, a psychology graduate student who maintains there is no proof CIO techniques are safe before a baby is a year old.

The (not quite) anti-CIO poster child: Macall Gordon, Part I

I’ve been aware of this poster for a while now. Macall Gordon, an ‘academic’ (at the time of the poster’s making she was studying for her Master’s degree in Antioch University, Seattle) presented it at the 2007 Biennial Meeting of the Society for research in Child Development, and chaired a roundtable discussion symposium on the [...]

A brief distraction from Passover cleaning

to bring you some more really good, must-read articles about the vaccine/autism non-hypothesis. For some of you, these will be nothing new, but they are really great, up-to-date and accessible resources to ‘educamate’ the masses, if you know what I mean.
Anatomy of a Scare – Newsweek
Treating Autism as if Vaccines Caused It, by Arthur Allen, [...]