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Category Archives: Vaccines/Alternative Medicine
10 hypocrisies/double standards of the anti-vaccine movement
The anti-vaccine movement is full of all sorts of inaccurate claims, bizarre views, and distorted facts. This dissociation with reality often causes anti-vax arguments to conflict with one another. Therefore, in this post I am going to describe 10 anti-vax … Continue reading
Yes, vaccines did save us from disease: a graphic analysis
If you have spent any time reading anti-vaccine pages, then you have inevitably come across graphs like Figure 1 (below) which claim that death rates were already declining prior to vaccines, and, therefore “vaccines did not save us from disease.” … Continue reading
Posted in Vaccines/Alternative Medicine
Tagged Bad arguments, disease rates, measles, statistics, Vaccines
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Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS): If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is
There is an old saying that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. I really like this saying because it is a basic principle of skepticism, and it goes hand in hand with a statement that … Continue reading
Posted in Vaccines/Alternative Medicine
Tagged alternative medicine, Bad arguments, cancer, evaluating evidence
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5 simple chemistry facts that everyone should understand before talking about science
One of the most ludicrous things about the anti-science movement is the enormous number of arguments that are based on a lack of knowledge about high school level chemistry. These chemistry facts are so elementary and fundamental to science that … Continue reading
Vaccines don’t give lifelong immunity, but they are still better than natural immunity
Anyone who has spent time talking to anti-vaxxers has probably encountered the argument that we shouldn’t vaccinate because vaccines only provide temporary immunity whereas natural immunity is lifelong. This is one of the most insipid, infuriating, irrational and easily defeated … Continue reading
Posted in Vaccines/Alternative Medicine
Tagged anti vaccine arguments, Bad arguments, disease rates, herd immunity, Vaccines
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