While doing a little bedtime reading I came across a recent post by Orac that deconstructs some anti-vaccination nonsense spouted by a blogger (writing about some upcoming H1N1 flu vaccines) in the US. I don’t want to repeat it all – pop over to Orac’s place for the whole post. But one bit of foolishness […]
Continue readingA couple of days ago our local paper carried a letter that included the bald statement: "vaccines cause ear infections." My first response to that one was: citations, please! That sort of statement is incredibly dangerous, because it’s essentially saying, don’t vaccinate if you don’t want your kids to get ear infections. (The letter writer […]
Continue readingA while ago now I blogged on comments that had been made in a letter to one of our local papers concerning gardasil, the vaccine currently offered to young women & offering protection against the four most common strains of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). My main concern in writing then was to counter some rather […]
Continue readingWell, I had a great time at the Junior Cafe in Tauranga yesterday 🙂 I always like to talk about things that interest me with other equally interested people, & the questions afterwards were really stimulating. As I’ve said before, I enjoy challenging questions because they stimulate my own learning 🙂 Anyway, there was a […]
Continue readingIf you’ve seen today’s papers (& I guess it’s on TV/radio as well), you’ll know that the outbreak of measles that began in Christchurch seems to have spread to Auckland (by the simple path of someone picking up the infection in Christchurch & then travelling north, I suspect). A measles expert quoted on the Science […]
Continue readingAt least, that’s how those working in medicine/health were characterised in a letter to one of our local papers. The writer seems to see the whole vaccines/pandemic warnings issue as a conspiracy to drive up profits for doctors, scientists, & pharmaceutical companies. Personally I always thought doctors & health researchers were in the business of helping […]
Continue readingYou see some interesting things in the ‘letters’ pages of our local newspapers. A little while ago it was the suggestion that ‘stabilised liquid oxygen’ was the cure for all ills. This week: a statement that the recently-introduced Gardasil vaccine contains rat poison & aluminium, and that it’s caused 29 deaths and 10,000+ adverse reactions. […]
Continue readingFrom time to time, someone will make the comment that evolution is totally irrelevant to everyday life in general, & to medicine in particular. Today ERV’s got a post detailing just how evolutionary theory has been & is being applied by medical researchers working on development of an HIV vaccine. Great stuff!
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