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News and Information on Infectious Diseases
What Might Have Been: MMR Vaccines are not linked to Autism, and This News Infuriates Me.
Today, news stories abound with the findings from a study involving 95,000 children: MMR vaccines do not cause autism. Why am I not...
The Aftermath of Lyme Disease
Every so often, a disease becomes shrouded in rumor and innuendo until it is difficult to parse out truth from fiction. People can take...
Talking About Vaccines: Maybe We've Been Doing it Wrong
(Image: Coursera, "Epidemics- the Dynamics of Infectious Disease") Recently I have been working on a piece for the Bangor Daily News...
Dr. Wakefield Goes to Oregon...or Not.
This week, I was astounded to read that Dr. Andrew Wakefield, he of the thoroughly debunked "vaccines cause autism" fame, had been called...
It Turns Out that Calling People Idiots is Ineffective
Comic by Emily Flake, The New Yorker A friend of mine recently suggested that perhaps humor was a good way to do a little scientific...
The Price of Willful Ignorance
For the second time in as many years, the United States has an active measles outbreak. This is inarguably due to elective omission of...
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