You Just Brought Back Measles in NYC

From a pediatrician:

It is because I never want patients in my office to contract vaccine-preventable illnesses ... that patients whose parents refuse to vaccinate them are not welcome in my practice. I cannot entirely eliminate the potential for disease exposure between children who come to see me, but I can ( Read more... )

Families Who Reject Inoculations Told to Find a New Physician

 Convergence 2011
We just got back from Convergence, the biggest of the local SF cons. We have been going there for some years, including 2010, 2009 , 2008, 2007 and 2006

We actually did the full four days of the Con, staying over Thursday night as well as Friday and Saturday ( Read more... )

Measles in Arizona

We can argue endlessly, and do, about people who refuse vaccination for themselves or their children. Under law, they have the right to take that risk. But what this Arizona outbreak makes clear is how many more people are forced to assume that risk without being consulted: not only the infants, elderly and immune-compromised ( Read more... )

From Why the 'Prius Driving, Composting' Set Fears Vaccines

I talked to a public health official and asked him what's the best way to anticipate where there might be higher than normal rates of vaccine noncompliance, and he said take a map and put a pin wherever there's a Whole Foods. I sort of laughed, and he said, "No, really, I'm not joking." ( Read more... )

Not content with anti-vaccination nonsense, which I have noted before, you can also find Pseudo-Astronomy at the Huffington Post.

Get the facts at Betelgeuse and 2012 and Will Betelgeuse Really Become a Second Sun in 2012?.

Blogger Who Fought Against Anti-Vaccine Group is Under Attack

Some of you may have met Elyse: She has been to Convergence the last two years.

As most of you you know, mia_mcdavid and I have two autistic sons. Both received all the usual childhood vaccinations. mia_mcdavid and I are certain that this was the right thing to do and have no regrets about it.

On Minnesota Public Radio

By haddayr, with an additional note from her here.

Whooping cough now an epidemic in California

The Facts In The Case Of Dr. Andrew Wakefield by tallguywrites.

Via Bad Astronomy