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Pseudoscience and Magical Thinking: What’s the Harm?
What’s The Harm is a website that lists cases where a lack of critical thinking has caused unnecessary harm, death, injury, hospitalization, major financial loss, or other damages. Here are 10 striking examples where
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No Link Found Between Vaccines and Autism (again)
Once again, a panel of scientists has found no evidence that the M.M.R. vaccine causes autism. The gist of the report? “The M.M.R. vaccine doesn’t cause autism, and the evidence is overwhelming that it
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Radio Interview on 92.1 The Beat, Tulsa, Oklahoma
I had the opportunity to join the crew over at The Beat in Tulsa, Oklahoma for a radio interview for “Conspiracy Thursday”, where the hosts invite a guest to speak about various conspiracy theories.
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Wakefield’s Autism-Vaccine Study Found to be an “Elaborate Fraud”
Andrew Wakefield is in deeper, hotter water. Wakefield’s study fueled the MMR/vaccination/autism debate, and served as trusted evidence for the anti-vaccination movement, led now by Age of Autism, Jenny McCarthy, among others. An analysis
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Whooping Cough Makes a Comeback in California
It still astonishes me when I hear that nearly eradicated diseases are making a comeback in industrialized nations where the diseases and their symptoms can be almost entirely avoided. Whooping cough, featured in a
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Alternative Medicine: Things You Should Know
Alternative Medicine, or medicine that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine, is at the opposite end of evidence based medicine. It encompasses therapies with a historical or cultural, rather than a
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Celebrities Endorsing Stupid Things: (like) The Anti-Vaccination Movement
My skeptical radar is activated each time I hear a celebrity endorse a product or promote a cause. While generally harmless, celebrities have such large audiences that they have the ability to broadcast their
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