http://www.skeptics.com.au Investigating pseudo-science and the paranormal from a responsible scientific viewpoint Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:26:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/news/muddied-waters-setting-the-record-straight-about-mmr-vaccinations-and-autism/ http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/news/muddied-waters-setting-the-record-straight-about-mmr-vaccinations-and-autism/#comments Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:56:01 +0000 Eran http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/news/muddied-waters-setting-the-record-straight-about-mmr-vaccinations-and-autism/ Warning: imagecreatefromjpeg(/var/www/vhosts/skeptics.com.au/httpdocs/http://cdn.theconversation.edu.au/files/3619/width440/nealeanddalissa.jpg) [function.imagecreatefromjpeg]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/vhosts/skeptics.com.au/httpdocs/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/jb-thumbnail-for-excerpts/thumbnailforexcerpts.php on line 132

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There’s a temporal link between autism being diagnosed and children getting several vaccinations. Photo credit: nealeanddalissa/Flickr The lack of scientific literacy in the media causes much harm to public understanding of the role and importance of vaccines. The latest instance revives the same old fears using the same formula that so many such stories use. I’ve been writing [...]]]> http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/news/muddied-waters-setting-the-record-straight-about-mmr-vaccinations-and-autism/feed/ 0 http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/news/wakefield-%e2%80%9cerased%e2%80%9d/ http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/news/wakefield-%e2%80%9cerased%e2%80%9d/#comments Tue, 25 May 2010 11:59:02 +0000 Rachael http://www.skeptics.com.au/?p=3071 http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/news/wakefield-%e2%80%9cerased%e2%80%9d/feed/ 0 http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/news/another-blow-for-wakefield-as-neurotoxicology-paper-withdrawn/ http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/news/another-blow-for-wakefield-as-neurotoxicology-paper-withdrawn/#comments Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:19:46 +0000 Rachael http://www.skeptics.com.au/?p=2387 http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/news/another-blow-for-wakefield-as-neurotoxicology-paper-withdrawn/feed/ 0 http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/news/the-old-one-two-three-hits-the-anti-vaccination-movement/ http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/news/the-old-one-two-three-hits-the-anti-vaccination-movement/#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:14:14 +0000 Rachael http://www.skeptics.com.au/?p=2349 It hasn’t been a good week for anti-vaxers. In fact, it hasn’t been a good year. But the period from the end of January into the first week of February 2010 was particularly troublesome for the luddites of the medical world. In three consecutive blows, a key piece of research for the movement and its main [...]]]> http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/news/the-old-one-two-three-hits-the-anti-vaccination-movement/feed/ 0 http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/news/mmr-doctor-unethical-callous-and-dishonest/ http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/news/mmr-doctor-unethical-callous-and-dishonest/#comments Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:01:46 +0000 Rachael http://www.skeptics.com.au/?p=2312 One of the poster boys of the global anti-vaccination movement, Dr Andrew Wakefield, has been found guilty of being dishonest, irresponsible and misleading, with the possibility of being struck off the medical register. Wakefield was a senior lecturer in the Departments of Medicine and Histopathology at the Royal Free Hospital and a reader in experimental gastroenterology. [...]]]> http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/news/mmr-doctor-unethical-callous-and-dishonest/feed/ 0