There’s a whole bunch of flat-earthers who insist despite all scientific evidence – both epidemiological and clinical – to the contrary that MMR causes autism. Jenny McCarthy for example.
In the UK this belief started 10 years ago thanks to the pomposity of Andrew Wakefield’s grandstanding and utterly fact-free press conferences insinuating a link between MMR [...]
Alongside the error strewn Edelson piece that I already blogged about, Communication also ran a response from Paul Shattock that avoided Edelson’s mistakes of making factual errors about chelation and Tariq Nadama by simply going for a handbag wielding biatch attack more suited to Paris Hilton sulking about Nicole Ritchie wearing the same dress as [...]
Continuing my ‘homage’ to Ben Goldacre’s excellent new book ‘Bad Science‘, this time we discuss Ben’s explanation of the scientific concept of Blinding.
One important feature of a good trial is that neither the experimenters nor the patients know if they got the [thing we want to test] or the simple placebo sugar pill, because we [...]
Communication is the members mgazine of the UK’s National Autistic Society. In an issue earlier this year, Mike Fitzpatrick, GP and author had an extract from his latest book published.
The extract touched on chelation and the death of Tariq Nadama.
This prompted a bilious response this month from Stephen M Edelson in this months Communication. The [...]
