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Archive for the ‘Thimerosal’ Category

The Autism-Vaccine Debate: Why It Won’t Go Away

Friday, February 11th, 2011

Who said it was? Backstory: “The Autism-Vaccine Debate: Why It Won’t Go Away” is a recent blog post by David Kirby at the Huffington Post. Yes, he’s come back to talk about autism and vaccines. I say again: who says the debate is going away? The scientific debate on the main issues: thimerosal and the [...]

Sloppy science – a perfect example of how the anti-vaccine crowd will listen to anything

Friday, February 11th, 2011

Both Age of Autism and David Kirby have recently reported on a new review paper with Age of Autism describing it as ‘pretty interesting’ and David repeating a part of the abstract: Documented causes of autism include genetic mutations and/or deletions, viral infections, and encephalitis following vaccination. So, should we all in the skeptic camp [...]

Chatting with Seth Mnookin

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

I don’t want to call what follows an interview as: a) I’m not that grand b) It was more friendly than that So what follows was a meandering email chat Seth and I had about the release of The Panic Virus (Amazon UK, US and CA) and the content in it. KL: You mention in [...]

Don’t Take the Risk: Get the Facts on SafeMinds

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

No matter what your position is on SafeMinds, I bet you found that title somewhat overly sensational. You may have thought that there was a not-so-hidden message in it. I’d love to know what your initial reaction was. Think it over before going on. Here is one of the banner icons from the SafeMinds website. [...]

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