The Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism Q/A
Sometimes in the next few days weeks, I’m going to catch up on the piles of work that I’m behind on and post a review of The Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism, a remarkable new book written and compiled …
View ArticleSciWriteLabs 7.1: The New York Times’s Amy Harmon on neurodiversity and...
Over the holidays, The New York Times gave those of us who love good science writing and value in-depth reportage a fantastic present in the form of “Navigating Love and Autism,” Amy Harmon‘s...
View ArticleSciWriteLabs 7.2: The New York Times’s Amy Harmon on what it means to be a...
Last Tuesday, I published the first of a three-part Q&A with Pulitzer Prize winning science reporter Amy Harmon of The New York Times’s. That conversation focused on “Navigating Love and Autism,”...
View ArticleThe whole cell pertussis vaccine, media malpractice, and the long-term...
Seventy years-ago, a pioneering American scientist named Pearl Kendrick combined killed, whole cell pertussis bacterium with weakened diphtheria and tetanus toxins to create the first combination...
View ArticleWe interrupt this extended absence: Tonight only, The Panic Virus at Skeptics...
It’s been a lonely few months here at The Panic Virus. There are myriad reasons for that, none of which I’ll bother you all with now. But…I will be coming out of my hole tonight to talk to the Boston …
View ArticleA Jenny McCarthy Reader, Pt. 1: The birth of a star and an embrace of...
Note: Earlier today, . As many people have already noted, this is an extremely unfortunate move on ABC’s part: It’s giving the network’s imprimatur to someone who has worked, methodically and...
View ArticleA Jenny McCarthy Reader, Pt. 2: Jenny brings her anti-vaccine views to Oprah
Note: Earlier today, Jenny McCarthy was officially named as a new co-host of the popular daytime talk show The View. As many people have already noted, this is an extremely unfortunate move on ABC’s...
View ArticleA Jenny McCarthy reader, Pt. 3: Jenny legitimizes the scientific fringe
Note: Earlier today, Jenny McCarthy was officially named as a new co-host of the popular daytime talk show The View. As many people have already noted, this is an extremely unfortunate move on ABC’s...
View ArticleA Jenny McCarthy reader, Pt. 4: The real dangers in following Jenny’s advice
Note: Earlier today, Jenny McCarthy was officially named as a new co-host of the popular daytime talk show The View. As many people have already noted, this is an extremely unfortunate move on ABC’s...
View ArticleCrosby’s labyrinth, or why I couldn’t stop myself from replying to the...
Earlier today, Jake Crosby posted this comment on one of my recent posts about Jenny McCarthy. (For those of you lucky enough not to know who Jake Crosby is, here’s his entry in the Encyclopedia of...
View ArticleKatie Couric promotes dangerous fear mongering with show on the HPV vaccine.
On July 10, 2012, I received an email from a producer at Katie, Katie Couric’s daytime talk show, about a show the program was planning on vaccines. Here was the pitch: I am interested in talking to...
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