This is a post which has sprung up because of a discussion at Melanie Phillips’ blog at The Spectator. It is probably longer than the subject matter really deserves, but illustrates an important point.
Recently a news article that daisy-chained a number of very weak vaccine-autism hypothesis stories together was published at The Daily Telegraph. This [...]
There’s a new blog by an experienced epidemiologist, called Epiwonk. He or she has been reading a new paper by Young, Geier and Geier. In the study, in which they claim shows a link between thiomersal and autism, the authors actually imputed additional cases of autism:
This is just not done. It’s not valid. It’s not [...]
Cherry-picking vaccines can be dangerous:
Some parents have taken to cherry-picking vaccines, leaving out only the shots they believe their children don’t need—such as those for chicken pox and hepatitis B—and keeping up with what they see as the life-or-death ones. But that can be a high-stakes game, as Kelly Lacek, a Pennsylvania mother of three, [...]
Here’s the sad story of lawyers struggling to make ends meet:
Five-lawyer Boston law firm Conway, Homer & Chin-Caplan has transformed itself from the products liability firm that housed Jan Schlichtmann’s toxic tort case immortalized in the movie “A Civil Action” into a prominent plaintiffs firm in the vaccine bar.
But it hasn’t been an easy ride.
Name [...]
The Independent (why am I not shocked at this?) carries a fairly supportive article on Vernon Coleman, who thinks we are doomed.
He has agreed to be interviewed about his newest publication, Oil Apocalypse, in which he turns his attention to the imminent end of the world, which he foresees as a direct result of the [...]
Over at the JABS website they are getting a little bit excited about some experiments involving monkey brains. It is alleged that monkeys given vaccines have developed “autism”. The research is posted by JABS admin, so this is not material put forward by a mere visitor to the site. One commentator states “great article – [...]
I’ve just got back from Birmingham’s Apple Store. My Macbook hard drive was failing to boot, and making disturbing clunking noises. After some diagnostics, which took some time, it was found my hard drive was totally shredded. They fitted a new one on the spot, and re-installed Leopard up to the start-up video. Excellent customer [...]
A recent case of vaccine compensation in the US has been picked up by the UK media, notably the Daily Express, and is being touted as evidence that vaccines cause autism.
Paul Offit provides a commentary in The New England Journal of Medicine on the Hannah Poling case, and explains how the US vaccination compensation [...]
Readers may be interested to note that short-book reviews can be inserted into amazon urls. I have taken off the catalogue numbers for the purposes of display within the column of this blog, but clicking through to amazon will show the effect in your address bar.
For example:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ben_Goldacre_is_everywhere_like_God
http://www.amazon.co.uk/how-to-exploit-the-sick-for-profit
http://www.amazon.co.uk/most_alternative_medicine_is_a_pile_of_crap
http://www.amazon.co.uk/an-attempt-to-kill-children-with-pseudoscience
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Boris_Johnson_blunders_again
I’m sure people can think of better ones than [...]