Harpocrates Speaks: SB277 Opposition: The Smokescreen of Parental Choice
Humans love to have choices. From early on in our childhood, we like to be able to choose what we want to do. Play with this toy or th...| www.harpocratesspeaks.com
New campaign finance data exposed another "Make America Healthy Again" outfit paying a prolific promoter of antisemitic conspiracy theories. The post MAHA PAC Paying Promoter of Antisemitic Conspiracies appeared first on IREHR.| IREHR
Under the guise of “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA), a promoter of notorious antisemitic conspiracy theories has been making the rounds of the MAGA establishment in DC, developing organizational ties... The post Antisemitic Conspiracy Promoter Cozies Up to Heritage Foundation appeared first on IREHR.| IREHR
MAHA Institute director has a history of promoting antisemitic conspiracies. The post Make America Hate Again appeared first on IREHR.| IREHR
Reading Time: 4minutesValue of Immunizations There is considerable discussion about the value of immunizations. Should we get a COVID or flu vaccine? Should children receive all recommended The post No Immunity to the High Cost of Caregiving appeared first on USA Daily Standard.| USA Daily Standard
The research, canceled earlier this month, made promising inroads on developing vaccines for cancers and HIV, which both have significant racial and socioeconomic disparities RFK Jr.’s halt on mRNA vaccine research risks progress on tackling dangerous illnesses is a story from Prism, a BIPOC-led nonprofit news outlet that centers the people, places, and issues currently underreported by national media. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our work today.| Prism
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There are quite a number of things that people take for granted today, regarding their health, at least in developed nations, like the United States. The majority of the population doesn't think much about the possibility of starving or being malnourished. If we suffer an injury, we can find treatment at a nearby pharmacy or convenience store. For something more serious, medical care is generally not too far away along roads that are kept in good repair. The same thing if we get sick.| Harpocrates Speaks
"This is not an anti-vaccine movie. We're just going to use ominous imagery to make people scared of vaccines."| Harpocrates Speaks
Conflicts of interest (COIs) are very important considerations in research. The most obvious COIs are financial; the researcher may receive financial gain for one result versus another, or they will at least avoid losing current or future income if they get a specific result. But COIs could also be non-financial. Perhaps they have family or close friends that would prefer one outcome versus another. Or they might hold a volunteer position of authority in the sponsor's organization. Whatever f...| Harpocrates Speaks
The other day, I wrote about the incorrect claim that there are 69 doses of vaccine on the U.S. recommended childhood immunization schedule. That claim has morphed into 71 (or 72 [Edited to Add (2/24/15): apparently, anti-vaccine groups are now dishonestly claiming 74!]) doses since the publication of the 2016 schedule, which added the Meningococcal B vaccine for at-risk individuals, as well as those for who would like to get the vaccine and their doctor agrees it is indicated. The MenB vacci...| Harpocrates Speaks
Every now and then, we hear about some event in the news. Sometimes it can cause unjustified panic, like when people in the U.S. started panicking about Ebola virus, despite the risk to the average American being next to nothing. Other times, it can cause realistic concern, such as we see among the people of Flint, Michigan, or among members of communities where there are disease outbreaks. Reactions to these events run the gamut from the rational to the irrational and absurd. There is always...| Harpocrates Speaks
Please note additional edits to this article, particularly those added after 2/3/16, with the publication of the new 2016 recommended schedule.| Harpocrates Speaks
The other day, I got into a discussion with someone calling for Congressional hearings on the DeStefano 2004 study that is the latest to-do in anti-vaccine circles. I won't go into the background; you can read about it here. Instead, I'll just present the Storify curation of tweets. My interlocutor just didn't understand what she had read. There is nothing wrong with that. We all have areas in which we lack the requisite knowledge to fully grasp the subject. The real trick is figuring out whe...| Harpocrates Speaks
The other day, a friend of mine wrote a blog post about how an anti-vaccine Facebook page was taken over by someone who worked their way up to admin privileges, locked out all of the other admins, and then started posting goat memes, a practice known as "goating". My friend had been invited to take part, but by the time he took a look, the goating was well underway. All he did was write up a blog post describing what had happened, mentioned in passing that he had enjoyed watching events unfol...| Harpocrates Speaks
This will be a very brief post. As I was reading Orac's post about Donald Trump's anti-vaccine musings, one thing kept jumping out at me. Trump kept talking about "massive shots" that kids get, going so far as to say that "tiny children are not horses". I get the impression that Trump has either never seen an actual vaccine syringe or he is so terrified of needles that when he did see one, his interpretation of reality was so warped he imagined it to be some huge monstrosity.| Harpocrates Speaks
Did you learn nothing from this movie, Jim?| Harpocrates Speaks
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Humans love to have choices. From early on in our childhood, we like to be able to choose what we want to do. Play with this toy or th...| www.harpocratesspeaks.com
Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared on Medium.| Moms Who Vax
It has become standing advice in all camps—from pediatricians and public health officials to anti-vaccine mouthpieces and chiropractors: do your own “research” on vaccines and then come to a reasoned decision about whether you want to vaccinate your child. Imbedded in that directive is the suggestion that all parents have both the specialized education and critical thinking skills required to do biomedical research.| Moms Who Vax
We are in danger of seeing a commonsense change in Minnesota's immunization law go down without a fight, thanks to the anti-vaccine movement's attempts to derail it. HB 393 would add an education component to our existing personal belief exemption.| Moms Who Vax
By Karen Ernst| Moms Who Vax
Our friends at Voices for Vaccines work tirelessly to make sure the anti-vaccine movement does not succeed in presenting itself as the default "parent voice" heard in any immunization conversation. VFV instead garners the power of the more than ninety percent of parents who choose to protect their children, and the community, by vaccinating. Because of the grassroots nature of the organization, and the fact that VFV does not accept any pharmaceutical funding, it relies entirely on individual ...| Moms Who Vax
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I come from a family of science-loving, science-minded| Moms Who Vax
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For anti-science movements, such as the anti-vaccine movement, conspiracy theories are lifeblood. In fact, many of these movements would not survive if it were not for their unique kind of science fiction so implausible it would make Philip K. Dick blush. The anti-vaccine movement survives on several of these conspiracy theories, most of them so far-fetched that the majority of reasonably intelligent parents who read about them can dismiss them out of hand.| Moms Who Vax
Today marks the last day of National Influenza Vaccination Week, and in keeping with my standard M.O., I've waited until the very last minute to talk about the influenza vaccine. (Luckily, this didn't extend to the vaccine--my kids were vaccinated in August and I got mine in early November).| Moms Who Vax
By Dorit Reiss| Moms Who Vax
