Seth Mnookin https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Ask me anything: Reddit thread open for Mahola video interview New on PLoS: The financial implications of the US measles outbreaks An embarrassing, reckless, and irresponsible coda to Robert MacNeil’s career Reviews/Press Today’s lesson: “Alternative” Virginia school closes after half of its students infected with pertussis. All of them were unvaccinated. A move to the PLoS blog network Lessons from the shaming of chemically castrating doc who “endangers autistic children and exploits their parents” NYT piece on “doubting” science features graphic by controversial autism researcher The first of many statements yoking Robert MacNeil to the vaccine-autism canard [Abstracts] vs. anecdotes: What we have here is a failure to communicate Discussion of measles outbreak today at 1:35 pm on KOMO-Seattle An Age of Autism editor confronts child abuse on a school bus TV/Radio/Web A move away from anti-vaccine propaganda at the Huffington Post? Even more Science Online 2011’ers… Chang and Eng, the Brothers Quay, and a giant human colon Chill out, R2: Droids don’t get diseases like whooping cough Heroin and ad hominem attacks “You’d expect better from a Playmate”: Doonesbury issues a Jenny McCarthy smackdown Press-clips catch-up: Neurotribes, Mom Power, and the History of Vaccines A week on the road: California & Colorado recap “Thirty-eight people, including the author of this story, lost their jobs.” Readings/Lectures Bio Past Events Contacts More embarrassing anti-vaccine reporting from CBS News’s Sharyl Attkisson Kissing Kirshenbaum: Contest extended! A disappearance in a CBS News flu vaccine story…and the persistence of disinformation CBS & the flu vaccine, pt. 2: A little misinformation goes a long way Causation & correlation: What declining special ed rates don’t (necessarily) say about autism diagnoses Kids are dying — and that’s a fact, not a belief. The Huffington Post’s ‘Medical Review Board’ signs off on vaccine fear-mongering Dept. of corrections: The phantom $10 million measles outbreak Corrections Interviews/Press Discussion topic: Would prenatal vaccine conversations help assuage parent fears? Bertrand Might, index patient for new genetic disease, rushed to the ER STICKY POST: Look me up in the Public Library of Science This week in PLoS: Manufactroversies, RFK Jr.’s revival, and the definition of a Mnooklear Attack Reviews Corrections New on PLoS: Evidence, herd immunity, and “total assholes” Let me state very simply: HuffPo publishes dangerously ignorant dreck Appearances Corrections/addendums Highlights from the NYT Magazine profile of Andrew Wakefield Researcher who “does not meet the standard of reliability required by case law” good enough for PBS’s Newshour <i><strong>The Panic Virus</strong></i> “He should have examined the eyes of my mind”