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Category Archives: Nature of Science
Anti-vaccers are fundamentally wrong about placebo-controlled trials
Anti-vaxxers love to demand placebo-controlled trials and insist that nothing else will suffice for demonstrating vaccine safety. This approach to medical research is flawed for a number of reasons. First, as I’ve explained previously, new vaccines are, in fact, tested … Continue reading
Big pharma is not buying favorable peer-reviews
Science-deniers have a long history of blindly assuming that any research they don’t like must have been corrupted by “big whatever,” and I constantly see people assume a study had conflicts of interest rather than actually checking for conflicts. Lately, … Continue reading
Science never showed that smoking was safe
“Science used to say that smoking was safe, so why should we ‘trust the science’ when it says that vaccines are safe and effective, climate change is real, or GMOs are safe?” This is one of the most common excuses … Continue reading
Posted in Nature of Science
Tagged alternative medicine, Bad arguments, cancer, evaluating evidence, logical fallacies
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Vaccines are tested against placebos
Lately, my Facebook page has been flooded with people insisting that “no vaccine is tested against a placebo” (sometimes stated with additional qualifiers like “double-blind” or “saline placebo”). This claim, like so many anti-vaccer claims, is blatantly false. Nevertheless, I … Continue reading
Posted in Nature of Science, Vaccines/Alternative Medicine
Tagged anti vaccine arguments, autism, Bad arguments, covid, evaluating evidence, peer-reviewed studies, Vaccines
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Jon Stewart’s irresponsible, anti-science, COVID conspiracy theory rant
I’ve been a fan of Jon Stewart for a long time. I usually find him to be both funny and insightful. It was, therefore, with great dismay that I watched him spread a conspiracy theory and inaccuracies about science on … Continue reading
Posted in Nature of Science
Tagged Bad arguments, conspiracy theory, debunked, Safety
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