The Autism Epidemic That Wasn’t
The Trump administration’s scientific illiteracy about rates of autism is going to have catastrophic results.
Geoffrey C. Kabat
· 6 min read
Vaccines
A collection of 21 posts
More Vaccine Fearmongering
By spreading unproven claims that Covid-19 vaccines caused the deaths of children, Trump's FDA continues to undermine public trust in vaccines, with disturbing implications for the health of Americans.
Henry I. Miller
· 6 min read
America’s Public Health Is Under Attack
The hepatitis B vaccine episode is a preview of what happens when scientific institutions are corrupted by people who reject the scientific method itself.
Henry I. Miller
· 7 min read
RFK Jr. Must Go
By firing experts, cancelling important research funding, and promoting conspiracy theories, RFK Jr. threatens to undermine some of America’s most important public health achievements.
Jeffrey S. Flier
· 5 min read
Pre-Existing Convictions
In anticipation of the ‘new results’ RFK Jr. has promised about the causes of autism, an overview of what science has already learned.
Geoffrey C. Kabat
· 13 min read
Podcast #301: Vaccines, Politics, and Public Trust — Jake Scott, MD
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Stanford infectious diseases expert Jake Scott about the perils of rolling back immunisation treatments for COVID, RSV, and measles — and the misinformation spread by figures such as RFK Jr.
Quillette, Jake Scott
· 25 min read
RFK Jr.’s mRNA Betrayal: How Political Ideology Trumped Nobel Prize-Winning Science
Every layer of institutional knowledge validated this public-health technology. Yet it’s being overruled based on a politically torqued misreading of what vaccines are supposed to do.
Jake Scott
· 8 min read
RFK, Jr. and the End of Expertise
The US health secretary is spreading disinformation about vaccines while the administration he serves guts medical-research agencies and programs.
Geoffrey C. Kabat
· 11 min read
Misreading a Flawed Study
Vaccination against UTIs is a novel idea that holds enormous promise, but clinical trials must be well-designed and carefully analysed.
Geoffrey C. Kabat
· 5 min read
Vaccine Hesitancy and the Covid Pandemic
Overselling Covid vaccines during the pandemic has backfired and played into the hands of the anti-vaccine movement.
Roger Bate
· 10 min read
Will the New Vaccine Help Eradicate Malaria?
The malaria vaccine may well help reduce deaths, but we should not exaggerate its efficacy.
Roger Bate
· 7 min read
On DarkHorse, Ivermectin, and Vaccine Hesitancy
The following transcript comes from an interview for Iconoclast: Ideas that have Shaped the Culture Wars. It was conducted by Mark Halloran with Eric Topol on October 14th, 2021. Mark Halloran is Editor of Iconoclast. He holds a PhD in biochemistry and a BA in Behavioural Science. Eric Topol is
Mark Halloran
· 24 min read
What is Happening to My Profession?
Some of the people who are refusing the life-saving COVID vaccine are alienated from mainstream institutions, which they view as house organs of the political Left rather than trustworthy arbiters of truth.
Sally Satel
· 10 min read
‘It works! It works! It works!’: Jonas Salk and the Vaccine that Conquered Polio
Americans turned on their radios, department stores set up loudspeakers, and judges suspended trials so that everyone in the courtroom could hear what Francis was about to say.
Paul A. Offit
· 8 min read
Vaccine Rejectionism and the Left
The coronavirus pandemic has caused massive backtracking and spin-doctoring among progressive parties over bioengineered vaccines.
Jon Entine, Patrick Whittle
· 17 min read