New on PLoS: Evidence, herd immunity, and “total assholes”
My latest PLoS blog post went up on Friday; in it I discuss a comment I made back in January at American University in Washington DC. It begins: If there’s any one thing I’ve stressed in my talks over...
View ArticleThis week in PLoS: Manufactroversies, RFK Jr.’s revival, and the definition...
Among the news I wrote about this week was a press conference in Washington DC ginning up the latest manufactroversy over vaccines and autism. (Perhaps not surprisingly, Fox News was one of the few...
View ArticleNew on PLoS: The financial implications of the US measles outbreaks
Earlier today, the CDC released a report about the measles outbreaks that have been occurring across the country since the beginning of the year. (Hat tip to USA Today‘s Liz Szabo for this story.) One...
View ArticleDiscussion of measles outbreak today at 1:35 pm on KOMO-Seattle
According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Washington State has one of the highest school-immunization exemption rates in the country — and the current measles outbreak that’s spreading across the...
View ArticleSTICKY POST: Look me up in the Public Library of Science
At the end of April, I moved my blog to the Public Library of Science’s Blog Network. Since then, I’ve been trying to figure out the best way to keep readers of this site informed about what’s going on...
View ArticleDiscussion topic: Would prenatal vaccine conversations help assuage parent...
I have a piece in tomorrow’s Washington Post Outlook section titled “An early cure for parents’ vaccine panic.” It outlines some thoughts I have about implementing a standard pre-natal appointment for...
View ArticleAsk me anything: Reddit thread open for Mahola video interview
Mahalo, the “human search engine” with the motto “Learn anything,”^ has asked me to take part in their “ask me anything” author video series. If you have a question you’d like to throw into the mix,...
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