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Archive for August, 2008

“I don’t believe that”

Friday, August 29th, 2008

To promote his new book ‘Autism’s False Prophets. Bad science, risky medicine and the search for a cure’ (Amazon UK, Amazon US, Amazon Canada) – and look for a review here very, very soon – Dr Paul Offit went on the US radio show Talk of the nation ‘Science Friday’ earlier today. It turned into [...]

Reality bites back

Friday, August 29th, 2008

I think Scripps is a School of Journalism associated with Ohio University. Maybe someone can correct me if I’m wrong. Anyway, this little nugget popped up in my feed aggregator today. Although two-thirds of the nation’s adults have heard concerns that vaccines might produce dangerous side effects, nearly three-quarters say the benefits outweigh the risks, [...]

John McCain starting to back away from vaccines?

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

I’m a bit hesitant to blog about political figures from other countries. I don’t know an awful lot about John McCain other than he was a Vietnam (I think) veteran and was a POW for awhile. I know the Bush team sledged him pretty badly in the run up to Bush’s current term and I [...]

Busy day at the Trib for vaccines

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

According to the Chicago Tribune’s “On This Day In History“, on this day in “1906 Albert Sabin, the Polish-American doctor who developed a polio vaccine, was born”. Coincidentally, the Tribune had a couple of pieces on vaccines in the past few days. The main story, Kids’ vaccinations face risky resistance discusses how fears over vaccines [...]

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