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More Evidence for the Safety of Vaccines

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

This article was originally published at the NeuroLogica Blog and is re-published here with permission. By Steven Novella, MD NeuroLogica Blog A new study just published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Early Thimerosal Exposure and Neuropsychological Outcomes at 7 to 10 Years, does not support a correlation between mercury in vaccines and neurological [...]

Posted in Autism, David Kirby, MMR, Science, Skeptic, Thimerosal, badscience | 21 Comments »

Bloodletting 101 – an alternative history

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

Alt-med groupies tell us they are on the cutting edge of medical science, and that fringe providers are somehow protecting patients from the ravages of evidenced-based medicine. They even offer examples, as one austim list serve member did when he wrote “Mainstream medicine used to think bloodletting cured disease. So science doesn’t have all the [...]

Posted in Logical Fallacy | 6 Comments »

History teaches: Quackery – hard to kill. People – not so much.

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

New Scientist had an article recently describing the history of the use of X-rays as a beauty treatment. Who knew that radiation’s ability to make a person’s hair fall out was once exploited as a hair remover? Histories: The perils of X-ray hair removal FOLLOWING Wilhelm Roentgen’s discovery of X-rays in 1895, doctors around the [...]

Posted in Autism, Jenny McCarthy, Quackery, Science, Skeptic, badscience | 18 Comments »

CDC Cleared

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

Close on the heels of the New England Journal of Medicine’s publication of a new CDC study finding no connection between thimerosal and neurodevelopmental deficits, Sen. Mike Enzi released a report detailing the findings of a lengthy investigation by his committee staff. One’s first reaction to the prospect of Congress taking on a scientific issue [...]

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