Earlier this week California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a contentious, but scientifically supported, bill enforcing strict school vaccination requirements!!! Following the signing, Jim Carrrey went on a rant on twitter raging against the bill. Carrey claims that he’s not anti-vaccine, just anti- ‘toxins’ in vaccines. … Continue reading
California Governor Signs Strict School Vaccine Legislation SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Jun 30, 2015, 1:30 PM ET By JULIA HOROWITZ Associated Press Gov. Jerry Brown wasted no time Tuesday in signing a contentiousCalifornia bill to impose one of the strictest school … Continue reading
Anti-Vaccination: An Extreme Public Health Risk | msnbc Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, talks with Rachel Maddow about the health risks associated with not being vaccinated, and the importance of dispelling the … Continue reading
This is the first CauseScience reply to a question from a reader (via facebook, image above)!! The reader asked what CauseScience makes of the flu vaccine, and posted a BMJ article from Peter Doshi about the influenza vaccine, “Influenza: marketing … Continue reading
Originally posted on The Science Writing Blog:
State Farm Insurance recently dropped Rob Schneider from their advertising. Why? Rob Schneider says vaccines cause autism. Here’s a screenshot: “Yes, vaccines and autism are linked.” – Rob Schneider Rob Schneider is not…
Emily Oster has written a terrific post for FiveThirtyEight about vaccinations and why we should aim for 100 percent vaccination. You may recall CauseScience’s previous post about herd immunity here. Oster puts together a great explanation for why we should vaccinate as many … Continue reading
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The CDC posts that the measles outbreak in Ohio and other parts of the country is continuing. The new report also shows that this outbreak constitutes the highest number of measles cases in the US since the 1990’s, with it … Continue reading
The real news is starting to sound more and more like the Onion. Today, it was announced that Trump has asked major vaccine skeptic Robert Kennedy Jr. to chair a commission on vaccine safety and scientific integrity. Full details on WaPo. … Continue reading
Stories of vaccine-related harms are influential, even when people don’t believe them Laura Scherer, University of Missouri-Columbia; Brian Zikmund-Fisher, University of Michigan; Niraj Patel, University of Missouri-Columbia, and Victoria Shaffer, University of Missouri-Columbia In 2013 a boy who was given … Continue reading
