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Tag Archives: vaccines
5.17.2013
MercolaWatch:Dangerous reasoning about the chickenpox vaccine
In an April article, “Despite Doctor’s Order, School Bans Girl for Not Getting Chickenpox Vaccine”, Mercola is at it again with strange logic which seems to directly contradict the available facts. It seems that like many who are anti-vaccine, the / read more…
4.19.2013
MercolaWatch:On Environmental Factors for Autism — Part 2
This is the second of a two-part response to a recent mercola.com speculating on environmental causes for autism. This part briefly responds to his mention of vaccines, phthalates and gut flora.
Posted in Health / Pseudoscience / Science
Tagged in Autism / mercola / phthalates / vaccines
4.12.2013
MercolaWatch:On Environmental Factors for Autism — Part 1
In a recent article by Joe Mercola, he has a list of what he deems to be likely environmental factors for autism (spoiler: he mentions vaccines). Let’s take a look at some of them. NOTE: I have no intent to / read more…
Posted in Alternative Medicine / Health / Pseudoscience
Tagged in Autism / emr / klinghardt / mercola / vaccines
3.23.2013
An Addition to the List of Logical Fallacies
This week, I ran across an old classic argument the anti-vaccine people use as a reason not to get vaccines. It takes various forms in how it is presented, but the premise surrounds the fact there are companies and people / read more…
Posted in Education
Tagged in Capitalistic Fallacy / logical fallacies / profit / vaccines
2.7.2013
Groundhog Day: the Flu Vaccine and Narcolepsy
Winter, with its wonderful festivals and awful weather is the time of year we are often physically closest to our fellow men, women and children. For much of the day we are indoors breathing the same few cubic metres of air / read more…
Posted in Health / Science / Uncategorized
Tagged in anti-vaccine / flu / H1N1 / narcolepsy / pandemrix / swine flu / vaccines
1.5.2013
Why Do Vaccines Make People Crazy?
Yesterday, The Skeptical Libertarian posted a video showing Bill Maher’s ignorance when it comes to vaccines. Bill Maher is always an interesting example of the intersection of atheists, libertarians, skeptics, and general critical thinkers. Although many peoople in one group will tend to / read more…
Posted in Alternative Medicine / Conspiracy Theories / Health / Pseudoscience
Tagged in evidence based medicine / health / libertarian / natural medicine / vaccines
11.23.2012
MercolaWatch: Mis-information about the Gardasil HPV vaccine
Recently, Joe Mercola published another anti-Gardasil vaccine article, the bulk of which is based on a couple of studies (both by the same researchers) purporting to show that not only is Gardasil not safe, it’s not even effective. It appears / read more…
Posted in Conspiracy Theories / Health / Pseudoscience
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