Time to replenish that tissue and rotten tomato supply…

Remember this video?. Here’s Part II:

How can you mend a broken trust?

A new article in PLoS Biology discusses the vaccines/autism controversy from a anthropological/psychological perspective: A Broken Trust: Lessons from the Vaccine–Autism Wars. The history is well-known to most regular readers of this blog, but this particular article is interesting because it identifies the way the idea that vaccines cause autism took hold among the lay [...]

How science gets (mis)reported

Excellently summed up by PhD Comics. (Click on the thumbnail to get to the original)

The allure of biomedical treaments for autism

A comment on an earlier post of mine by a woman named Lisa, who has a 5-year-old son with autism, led me to her blog, specifically to this blogpost. Lisa is attempting to raise money to pay for some exorbitantly expensive biomedical treatments for her son, and has delayed vaccinating her younger, neurotypical son for [...]

Measles..now featuring in Wales

Where doctors are seeing the worst outbreak in years:
Health chiefs in Wales are dealing with a “massive” measles outbreak, with numbers already four times the highest figure recorded over the past 13 years.
Four nursery school children were treated in hospital as part of 127 cases across mid and west Wales, while there are another 35 [...]

A brilliant choice, if you ask me.

The California Immunization Coalition has put together an awesome website with a twist: using ‘just folks’ to explain why they support vaccination at Why I Choose.
I suspect many anti-vaccine parents feel condescended to by medical professionals, and are reluctant to take their advice as a result; this website is, in contrast, much more down-to-earth [...]

They say this about every generation.

But are today’s kids, perhaps, the rudest, most spoiled generation in history – all thanks to parents’ Gen-Xer tendency to AP?

You know it’s serious…

when the world’s most prestigious medical journal, The New England Journal of Medicine (known affectionately as NEJM), takes up the cause of vaccine advocacy.
In this week’s issue is an article that discusses the history and the development of US national vaccine programs, and also who opts out of those programs, the reasons why, and [...]

I’m sending you offblog again…

To read this new article at Babble.com about a mom who (teh horrorz!) doesn’t feed her child ‘organic’ food. Neither do I, and this article explains rather well why I don’t.

(One quibble: Arsenic isn’t organic, not being carbon-based. But it’s all-natural nonetheless).