What Doctors Don’t Tell You – the Magazine

Yesterday I picked up a copy of a new magazine called “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” which is clearly linked to the website of the same name. If you think from the title that the contents would be full of alleged health secrets that the medical establishment are with-holding from you, you’d be right. This blogpost just covers a sample of the contents. To do them justice would require a whole series of posts which I don’t have time to research and write at the moment.

More Measles Nonsense From Natural News

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.

A Fourth Year of Steam

It’s New Year’s Eve and time for my review of the year.

Daily Mail Versus the HPV Vaccine – Again

The Daily Mail appears to be attempting to undermine the HPV vaccine program by means of an anecdote and the post hoc fallacy.

The Abuses of Chelation Therapy

Chelation therapy is a method of ridding the body of toxic elements such as lead and mercury. It is a valid method that is misused by certain CAM practitioners.

MMR Yet Again

The 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.

Flu Vaccines Quackery

[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.

Mike Adams On The UK Flu Vaccine Shortage

[BPSDB]Mike Adams of Natural News has given us the benefit of his thinking on the UK flu vaccine shortage.

A Third Year of Steam

[BPSDB]It is almost New Year so I thought I would conduct a review of the major themes of 2010 as covered in this blog.

Yet Another MMR Scare

[BPSDB]It never ends. Now the What Doctors Don’t Tell You website is trying to revive the MMR hoax with this scare story saying that 40 UK children have been killed by MMR.