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Dangerous Legal Games
(Image Pelham Library) The anti-vaccine community is at it again, launching inane legal assaults in an attempt to gain a foothold in their war against science and reason. This time, Barbara Loe Fisher,...
View ArticleThe Real Problem with Conspiracy Theories
A quick note before I start this one. I’d like to say thanks to Scott, Benny, Michael, and Jareth for letting me babble on about this one before and after the Darwin Day lecture. All of your comments...
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TQM Pierces the Veil
I was so wrong. I’ve pierced the veil, seen the devil with his shorts down and boy are his balls red. Of course it’s real, I should have always known! I just needed to connect the dots… You don’t...
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Antivaccine movement’s bad PR hits critical mass
Six months ago we were looking at a serious flu pandemic, a very strong and vocal campaign demonizing vaccines, as well as a growing public distrust of vaccines and the entire medical industry. But...
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Infinity + 1
Remember when you were a kid and you’d get into arguments with your friends that would go something like this: “Are not!” “Am too!” “Are not!” “Am too!” And remember how, much like Godwin’s Law, sooner...
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Lazy conspiracy theorists
The Ancient Mystic Society of the Stonecutters Often when I get into discussions with grand conspiracy theorists it seems to start with just a “simple” conspiracy of under a hundred players. Then as...
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The end is not near
For thousands of years people have been predicting the end of the world, often even supplying specific dates near in the future when it would happen. And so far as I can tell, every single last one of...
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Anti-vax Tea Party (Part 1 of 2)
Andrew Wakefield, the British medical researcher notorious for his discredited work that attempted to link autism to the MMR vaccine and inflammatory bowel disease based (largely on bogus analyses of...
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An Anti-Vax Tea Party (Part 2 of 2)
Who has a question for "Dr." Wakefield? During the Q&A, I’d wanted to ask Wakefield what vaccines he was in favor of giving to infants as it’s clear that many of his supporters are far more...
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Should the Government be investigating UFO’s? No.
How could that be possibly be hanging in the air? It must be aliens! The great joy of the Internet is that you can find the nonsense that comes out of just about any part of the world. Prime example:...
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