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Be Afraid of the Many, Many Vaccines
Dr. Bob Sears wants you to believe he is a vaccine supporter. He so supports vaccines that once, while in the midst of lobbying against the elimination of vaccine exemptions in California, he asserted:...
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Mandates, Ben Franklin, and Vaccine Injury
On Monday (President’s Day), I flew to Philadelphia to be part of a panel at the Franklin Institute discussing whether or not we should mandate vaccines. The other panelists were Dr. Paul Offit (you...
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Is NVIC Anti-Vaccine?
Of course it is. For those of you who do not know who NVIC (National Vaccine Information Center) is, I submit to you this simple and accurate definition by Michael Specter: [A]n organization that,...
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Why doesn’t Age of Autism like me?
Everyone is talking about the movie produced by, funded by, directed by, and starring Andrew Wakefield. And while Andrew Wakefield doesn’t need anyone’s help with promotion (he is the master of...
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Anti-Vaxxers Dox a Child
One particularly vile and unethical way of shutting down opposition is to make public personal information about someone whose ideas oppose yours. Sometimes doxing comes with the presumption that...
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Filling Wakefield’s Coffers
Really, that’s all VAXXED is about. The movie, written by, produced by, funded by, and starring Andrew Wakefield is about Andrew Wakefield. It came to the city where I live and caused very little stir....
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Walgreens: Not Marco’s Puppetmaster
At some point last week, anti-vaccine crusaders decided that picking on a child was only so much fun, so they turned their sights on Walgreens: Multiply that times a hundred, and you get a taste of...
View ArticleSmells Like Desperation
Anti-vaxxers have shown, time and again, that they have little in their reserves except mean-spirited attacks against children, doxing, and otherwise moving to silence the voices of pro-vaccine...
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How we create vaccine hesitancy
We have responsibility in the rising tide of vaccine hesitancy. Granted, most of the responsibility belongs to the charlatans and the grifters in the anti-vaccine community. But all of us have created...
View ArticlePro-Vaccine World Tour
On Friday, I found myself protesting an anti-vaccine bus. A decade ago, I could not have imagined even writing such a sentence, but there I was. Some backstory, first. (Scroll down if you don’t need...
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