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Illinois charges DAN doctor with unethical behavior

Thursday, October 13th, 2011

According to the Chicago Tribune, the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation has charged a well-known Naperville physician with “unprofessional, unethical and/or dishonorable conduct.” Dr. Anju Usman, a familiar face at anti-vaccine conferences in the US and abroad, allegedly lied about or exaggerated the value of treatments, and “demonstrated extreme departure from rational [...]

Posted in Chelation, Quackery | 14 Comments »

Another anti-vaccine rally fizzles

Thursday, February 24th, 2011

A handful of “outraged” anti-vaccine activists occupied part of the sidewalk at the corner to 6th Ave. and 52nd St. today and listened to other angry anti-vaccine activists promote an anti-vaccine book and denounce Bill Gates. Witnesses report 18 participants at an event which promoters predicted would draw “tens of thousands” of parents supposedly angry [...]

Posted in Logical Fallacy | 63 Comments »

Why does it matter what happens to Andrew Wakefield?

Saturday, January 8th, 2011

People have been questioning the necessity of these latest revelations about Andrew Wakefield and suggesting that enough is enough or maybe that all this latest round of publicity will do nothing except make him a heroic martyr. This is possible. However, for a number of reasons I really feel it is vitally important that not [...]

Posted in Advocacy, Autism, Autism Myths, Autism Treatment Trust, Brian Deer, Generation Rescue, MMR, Measles, National Autism Association, News, Quackery, Safe Minds, This Blog, Vaccines, Wakefield, badscience | 68 Comments »

SafeMinds retaliates against skeptic blogger

Tuesday, December 7th, 2010

SafeMinds is an organization with the stated purpose to “...to restore health and protect future generations by eradicating the devastation of autism and associated health disorders induced by mercury and other man made toxicants. ” SafeMinds has stayed with this purpose even as the years have gone by and the evidence has mounted that the [...]

Posted in Age of Autism, Autism, Orgs, Safe Minds, Skeptic, Vaccines | 16 Comments »