Part 2 in this three part series will deal with old wives tales. In the (nearly 2 years) I have been blogging, I have run across all manner of (to me at least) wacky misconceptions about vaccines. So I figured it would be easier to put them in one place. The vast, vast majority of …
Category Archive: Vaccination
Feb 08 2013
Shot for Shots
As I was writing today’s post continuing the vaccination theme, someone sent me this. In a repeat of the killings of medical personnel by the Taliban, Nigerian islamic militants (well it’s suspected) took a page out of their book and have killed personnel in two different clinics. I know many of you have wished safety …
Feb 08 2013
Part 1 – An Explanation for Vaccination
This is something I have worked on for a while. As you guys may remember I wrote a piece on an “Easy Explanation of Immunology” a while back. And I noticed one of the comments. I apparently didn’t set it all the way to easy and there were some bits that needed further explanation so …
Dec 18 2012
Attacks on Medical Staff
It has been reported that UN Aid staff are being moved out of Pakistan and the country’s Polio program has been halted due to a series of attacks by insurgents specifically aimed at killing aid workers working to eliminate Polio. So far four women have died with the fifth succumbing to her injuries a short …
Nov 26 2012
Immunity? Easy Peasy…. Lemon Squeezie
Kylie over at the Token Skeptic is poking fun at the Anti-Vax. Her literature is cool but I know something that is lacking in skeptic land. One of the major problems with the vaccination movement is that most people cannot understand how vaccines are meant to work. Many anti-vaccine advocates simply think that injecting someone …
Aug 18 2012
Medical School
Have you ever wondered what doctor’s learn in medical school? It’s fascinating what people think medical school is like. It’s either a serious place where we all do work or filled with drunken party animal medical students… It’s a bit of both really. However the one that got me laughing was this. Two of the …
Jul 25 2012
It’s Not Lying! It’s Just Research Lite!
Thou shalt not bear false witness – Exodus 20:16 It surprises me how many people of the Abrahamic Faiths (Islam, Judaism, Christianity and associated splinter movements) can remember random bits of their faith but forget something as simple as the ten commandments. The ten basic rules you are supposed to live your life by, …
Jun 30 2012
An Offer You Cannot Refuse
I found myself asking the question. Why disprove anti-vax nonsense? Well it’s because anti-vax are horrible luddites who aggressively campaign. You cannot get into a discussion with them without either them calling you something like “sheep” or them failing basic biology. Debate does not solve the problem because science doesn’t function by debate. I could …
May 18 2012
Mythbuster
Stand Back! We are going to try Science! No… Not these guys. These guys are pretty good!No. No we are dealing with Natural News not the mix of engineering and physics and hard science not to mention statistics that goes into the actual Mythbusters. Instead we have something that can only charitably described as fiction. …
May 06 2012
Jagganath Chaterjee – 40 Reasons to Not Vaccinate?
Sometimes while poking around the anti-vaccine lobby you find something so insane that not even Natural News would touch it. And I have found something that’s madness incarnate. In this corner I present to you Jagganath Chatterjee, whose mindbogglingly daft 40 Reasons to Not Vaccinate your child attempts to bring the anti-vaccine movement to India. …
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