In their eagerness to disprove the necessity of vaccination as an aid to public health, the writers of Natural News seem to have gone from misunderstanding and misinterpreting statistics to plain old making stuff up. (more…)
Archive for the ‘MMR’ Category
More Measles Nonsense From Natural News
May 8, 2012MMR Yet Again
October 4, 2011The Daily Mail will not let go of the mythical MMR-autism link. Their writer Sally Beck claims that:-
New American research shows that there could be a link between the controversial MMR triple vaccine and autism and bowel disease in children.
This is complete bollocks, to use a technical term. (more…)
Flu Vaccines Quackery
January 23, 2011[BPSDB]Mike Adams of Natural News is still banging on about the UK seasonal flu vaccine shortage. He makes his case by completely misunderstanding UK health care provision and invoking Andrew Wakefield’s fraudulent research. (more…)
A Third Year of Steam
December 28, 2010Yet Another MMR Scare
October 29, 2010Hanging On to St. Wakefield
March 14, 2010The ‘Health Ranger’ Fails Statistics 101
February 14, 2010A Second Year of Steam
January 17, 2010The Press and Public Health
September 5, 2009[BPSDB]
What is driving the relentless antivax stance of Britain’s dead tree media and its onlone off-shoots? I ask because it seems to me that Fleet Street is becoming a menace to public health and I am assuming that spreading disease, misery and death does not appear on the mission statement of any newspaper. Although if it does they are complying with it brilliantly. (more…)
Does Paul Dacre Read the Daily Mail?
May 14, 2009[BPSDB]You might think that this is one of those rhetorical “Do bears shit in the woods?” style questions but I’m a little puzzled by his evidence to the seventh session of the Culture Media and Sport Parliamentary Select Committee’s inquiry into Press Standards, Privacy and Libel. (more…)