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Autism, Vaccines, and Community: Straight Talk with Seth Mnookin

Two things that the anti-vaccine movement offers to parents of kids with Autism Spectrum Disorder that the pro-vaccine forces generally don’t, Seth Mnookin says, are answers and a supportive community....

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Rolling Stone re-posts RFK Jr. story lauding chemically castrating autism...

At some point in the last several days, Rolling Stone re-posted “Deadly Immunity,” the error-laden piece by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. that the magazine and Salon.com simultaneously published in June 2005....

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ABC News lies to readers, pretends 2009 news story on vaccines was written...

Vaccines (and vaccine safety) has certainly been in the news a lot lately — that’s what a couple of fantastical claims by a major political figure can do. So it’s no surprise that news outlets have...

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Taking stupid to a whole new level: TLC’s entry for the “Worst piece written...

I try not to be surprised by the level of stupid displayed by people working in the information industries — print, television, radio, etc. — which should give you some indication of what level of...

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TLC disappears comments, edits its turd of an anti-vaccine piece. It still...

As discussed yesterday, the folks over at TLC seem to have buried their heads in the sand when it comes to vaccines. Apparently, though, their love of misinformation hasn’t quite overwhelmed their...

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A PSA to journalists writing about vaccines: Thimerosal was never used in the...

The shameless and lamentable decision on the part of ABC to hire Jenny McCarthy as one of its co-hosts for the daytime talk show The View has, once again, brought the topic of vaccines and autism into...

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