Medicine
How Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Distorted Vaccine Science
His anti-vaccine credentials date back to 2005
Stories by Seth Mnookin
Health
The impossibility of responsible nuance in the vaccine discussion
Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled 6–2 in Bruesewitz v. Wyeth , a case involving parents' rights to sue vaccine manufacturers. Before getting into the particulars, here's some important background: In the early 1980s, literally hundreds of lawsuits were filed in civil courts claiming children had been harmed by the whole-cell pertussis component of the diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus (DPT) vaccine...
Health
The Huffington Post and the ongoing fear that vaccines might cause autism
Almost exactly 13 years ago, Andrew Wakefield addressed a group of reporters in a conference room at London's Royal Free Hospital to discuss a 12-child case study he and some colleagues had written up positing a theoretical connection between the measles-mumps-rubella virus and gut disorders and then between those gut disorders and autism...
