Tag Archives: Vaccines

Supporting science isn’t the same as supporting big business

Posted on September 28, 2015 by Fallacy Man

Hardly a day goes by without someone accusing me of being a “shill.” You see, I have the audacity to say that we should be getting scientific information from reputable scientific sources (i.e., the peer-reviewed literature), rather than trusting blogs, … Continue reading →

Posted in GMO, Vaccines/Alternative Medicine | Tagged , , , , , | 8 Comments

Settled science part 2: Creating the illusion of a debate

Posted on August 24, 2015 by Fallacy Man

In the previous post, I explained what we mean by “settled science” and why there often aren’t two legitimate sides to a story. Nevertheless, despite a massive scientific consensus on issues like climate change, there is still widespread disagreement among … Continue reading →

Posted in Nature of Science | Tagged , , , , , | 17 Comments

Settled science part 1: Is science ever actually settled?

Posted on August 16, 2015 by Fallacy Man

We are constantly told that “everyone has a right to their opinion” and “there are two sides to every story.” Our entire news system is predicated on the notion that we need to give fair time to both sides of … Continue reading →

Posted in Nature of Science | Tagged , , , , , | 47 Comments

10 hypocrisies/double standards of the anti-vaccine movement

Posted on July 13, 2015 by Fallacy Man

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 →

Posted in Vaccines/Alternative Medicine | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 51 Comments

Yes, vaccines did save us from disease: a graphic analysis

Posted on July 5, 2015 by Fallacy Man

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 , , , , | 9 Comments