In the Children’s Health Conference held in Sacramento, California on Sept 13, vaccination took center stage. Before 2015, California allowed personal and religious exemptions for all vaccinations in order to attend public school, and now thanks to California SB277, exemptions may be granted only on the basis of medical necessity. Still there…
The topic of vaccines really gets people revved up. And, as a result, logic is usually thrown out the window. Just by claiming that people have made logical fallacies in an argument about vaccines as I did recently on a fallacious article is enough to spur a new onslaught of…
Stanley A. Plotkin is an American physician who works as a consultant to vaccine manufacturers, such as Sanofi Pasteur, as well as biotechnology firms, non-profits and governments. In the 1960s, he played a pivotal role in discovery of a vaccine against rubella virus while working at Wistar Institute in Philadelphia.…
The gut/brain connection is getting more attention as study after study is finding a connection between gastrointestinal flora and neuro-cognitive development and diseases such as autism spectrum disorder. A recent literature review in Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience lays out the connection with mounting evidence. First, there is a clear correlation…
We’re excited to announce the publication of Paleo Family: Raising Natural Kids in an Unnatural World September 24, 2018! In anticipation, we’re holding a giveaway through Goodreads. Sign up for a chance to win an advance reader copy today: Goodreads Book Giveaway Paleo Family by J.S.B. Morse Giveaway ends September…
I am a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) nurse. For almost 14 years I worked in some of the best children’s hospitals in the country. I have never really been one to question “modern medicine” until somewhat recently. When you work in healthcare, you mostly just assume that everything is…
Alfie Evans, the subject of months of agonizing legal battles, has a mysterious neurological condition that has baffled UK doctors. Doctors at his hospital say the condition is “relentless and progressive” and has resulted in signs of a very high water content in the brain. The symptoms have been associated…
The vaccine issue tends to remove all reasonableness from people who get close to it (several reviews are examples) but Pathological Optimist tries to take a balanced, fair look at vaccines in general and specifically the controversy surrounding Andrew Wakefield. Seeing the personal angle of how a doctor and his…
Bill Nye, who has been brazenly wrong about human embryology and about climate science has now taken on the dreaded “anti-vaxxers” in a new video. He claims that if someone gets a communicable disease it’s likely to mutate into something that his vaccination won’t protect him from. Nye is worried…
