This page contains links to my posts about why vaccines work and are safe, as well as posts about the problems with alternative “medicines” such as herbal remedies and homeopathy.
General
- 4 meaningless words: toxin, natural, organic, and GMO
- Anti-vaccers, climate change deniers, and anti-GMO activists are all the same
- Ancient knowledge and the test of time
- If anecdotes are evidence, why aren’t you drinking paint thinner?
- Even if medical errors were the 3rd leading cause of death, that wouldn’t be as bad as it sounds
- Parents often don’t know what is best
- Supporting science isn’t the same as supporting big business
- The Value of Carefully Controlled Studies: A Thought Experiment
- Understanding the reported risks of medicines, foods, toxic chemicals, etc.
- What Does It Actually Mean to “Do Your Homework”?
Vaccines
- 2 biggest lies of the anti-vaccine movement
- 5 bad arguments against the influenza vaccine
- 6 reasons why anti-vaccers are wrong that “being sick is good”
- 10 hypocrisies/double standards of the anti-vaccine movement
- 15 Common Anti-Vaccine Arguments and Why They are a Load of Crap
- 100 bad arguments against vaccines
- Another terrible anti-vaccine study bites the dust
- Debunking 30 bad arguments about COVID/vaccines
- Debunking anti-vaccine arguments: VAERS, package inserts, and the VICP do not prove that vaccines are dangerous
- Do we need more studies on vaccines, GMOs, climate change, etc.?
- Don’t cherry pick your experts
- “Follow the money”: the finances of global warming, vaccines, and GMOs
- Future (“long-term”) side effects from COVID vaccines are extremely unlikely
- How well do you understand placebo effects?
- If vaccines are a scam to make money, why don’t we routinely vaccinate for diseases like cholera?
- Masks and COVID vaccines were huge successes; ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine were not
- Measles infections weaken your immune system and increase your risk of other diseases. Vaccines prevent this
- More anti-vaccine cherry-picking: A rebuttal to, “Should you be afraid that measles can give you immune amnesia?”
- Research, you’re doing it wrong: A look at Tenpenny’s “Vaccine Research Library”
- The problems with anti-vaccers’ precautionary principle arguments
- The Anti-Washers: Why Anti-vaccers Aren’t Allowed to be Insulted by Accusations That They Cause Outbreaks
- The vaccine package insert paradox
- Vaccines and autism: A thorough review of the evidence
- Vaccines and autism: A thorough review of the evidence (2019 update)
- Vaccines are tested against placebos
- Vaccines are “unavoidably unsafe,” but that doesn’t mean they are dangerous
- Vaccines don’t “bypass the immune system”
- Vaccines don’t give lifelong immunity, but they are still better than natural immunity
- Vaccine injuries and confirmation biases
- When is it reasonable to demand more studies?
- Why are there so many reports of autism following vaccination? A mathematical assessment
- Yes, vaccines did save us from disease: a graphic analysis
Cancer
- If cannabis and vitamin B17 kill cancer, why aren’t they approved by the FDA? Let me explain
- No one is hiding a cure for cancer
- Replacing science-based cancer treatments with “alternative treatments” increases your risk of dying from cancer (new study)
Alternative medicine
- Acupuncture is just a placebo
- Debunking “The doctors case for homeopathy” by WDDTY: A case study in critically evaluating internet articles
- Homeopathic beer: a simple test of homeopathy’s absurd claims
- Is it likely that alternative medicine works? The importance of prior probability
- It’s just water: how homeopathy debunks itself
- Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS): If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is
- Naturopaths use deceptive tactics to support pseudoscience
- No, homeopathic remedies can’t “detox” you from exposure to Roundup: Examining Séralini’s latest rat study
COVID
- Case-fatality rates don’t indicate how well a country contained COVID
- COVID comorbidities are not analogous to car crashes: Debunking the 6% mortality claim
- Debunking 30 bad arguments about COVID/vaccines
- Future (“long-term”) side effects from COVID vaccines are extremely unlikely
- Increased testing does not explain the increase in US COVID cases
- Jon Stewart’s irresponsible, anti-science, COVID conspiracy theory rant
- Masks and COVID vaccines were huge successes; ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine were not
- Shoddy statistics and false claims: Dr. Erickson dangerously misled the public on coronavirus
- The “99% survive COVID” argument is deceptive and completely misses the point
- The problems with anti-vaccers’ precautionary principle arguments
The Logic of Science 