Category: Public Health
The Latest Ebola Outbreak
The second largest Ebola outbreak is underway. This time we have an effective vaccine, but political unrest and distrust of science may be our real vulnerability.
Bad Documentary Review: Family Shots
Amazon removed a number of anti-vax documentaries in March but a few still remain unfortunately. Family Shots is a anti-vax propaganda film pretending to be a documentary about a father trying to find out if vaccines are safe. It also got government funding to be made. Yeah...
Direct to Consumer Telemedicine’s Flaws
Telemedicine is here, probably to stay, but with its arrival come new problems.
5G Is Coming
The imminent roll out of 5G technology has again sparked media coverage of the possible risks of EMF exposure, but the scientific consensus remains that the technology is safe.
Deception by omission: Del Bigtree’s ICAN calls the studies licensing MMR into question
Del Bigtree's antivaccine group Informed Consent Action Network issued a press release questioning the data used to license the MMR vaccine, with Bigtree claiming on a recent episode of his vlog Highwire that it causes significant GI issues that the FDA "covered up." As usual, Bigtree is deceiving by omission.
How To Respond to Anti-Vaxxers
How do we best address the anti-vaccine phenomenon? It's complicated.
Update on Glyphosate
A legal decision against the makers of glyphosate is not supported by the science.
Vape Nation: Vaping Is Bad, Kids
The Surgeon General declared youth e-cigarette use to be an epidemic, but many vaping communities online downplay the risks. What does the evidence show?
Scientists Sign Petition Warning about EMF
A petition signed by 250 scientists warns about wireless technology, but the science is not on their side.
Médecins Sans Medicine? “Homeopaths without borders” giving sugar pills for infectious diseases in Honduras
Canadian homeopaths are in Honduras, and claim their magic water remedies can prevent diseases such as Chagas, dengue, and chikungunya.