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Miracle patches that cure everything, or do they…
Summary: There is no need to read this entire post, it is long and full of science. If you want the take home message, then here it is. Lifewave patches are placebo. In other words, they are very...
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Update on the LBC affair, we get a showing on ITV London!
This week Ben Goldacre did a story on the LBC/Jeni Barnett affair for London tonight on ITV. Whilst discussing the Streisand effect, following the threat of legal action from LBC, he showed a screen...
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More anti-vax nonsense from potty mouthed Jenny McCarthy
This week an interview with Jenny McCarthy was published in Time Magazine. No surprises here, she continues to bang on about the link between autism and vaccination, despite there being no scientific...
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MMR doctor “unethical, callous and abused trust”
The doctor who sparked the MMR controversy “showed a callous disregard” for the suffering of children and “abused his position of trust”, a disciplinary panel has ruled. The General Medical Council...
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And so it begins to unravel for Wakefield
Overnight, Neurotoxicology withdrew Andrew Wakefield’s “other paper”, “Delayed acquisition of neonatal reflexes in newborn primates receiving a thimerosal-containing Hepatitis B vaccine: Influence of...
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Wakefield resigns in disgrace as the AVN entices with booze
Last night, Orac announced he had been advised that Wakefield had “voluntarily resigned” his post at Thoughtful House following the damning findings of the GMC. The source for the news was an email...
View ArticleVaccine court finds no link to autism
A US Federal court designed to provide compensation to children injured from vaccines, has declared that evidence supporting an alleged causal link between autism and a mercury-containing preservative...
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2010: The year in science, skepticism and woo.
What were your highlights for science and scepticism in 2010? Tweet There were some big “wins” for critical thinking in 2010, but sadly alternative medicine and scams continued to abound, with the...
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Not-a-doctor Wakefield still a threat to childrens’ health
The news just keeps getting worse for (not-a-doctor) Andrew Wakefield. Tweet First he got struck off the medical register in the UK, then his favourite paper was retracted from the Lancet, then the...
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Anti-vaxers are nice™
Over the past few years, I’ve been asked to write several posts on vaccine myths and why they’re not true. Tweet See here and here for some examples. For reasons that I don’t entirely understand,...
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