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A heartfelt and emotional news report on vaccines… which actually conveys the right message

About a week ago, Australian TV network Channel 7 ran a 12-minute piece highlighting the very real consequences of the rising anti-vaccination movement. Remarkably, and fortunately, the report managed to conform to “accepted journalistic standards” (i.e. present both sides of the “debate” even though none actually exists) and still convey the right message. The report [...]

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The Jeni Barnett MMR transcript – actually in full!

A number of blogs have already posted links to the full transcript of the segment of the Jeni Barnett show discussing MMR. However, I’ve just noticed that most are incomplete – missing one of the parts. The whole show is covered, mind you – there’s no surreptitious omissions – but most of the sets of [...]

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More on the MMR “debate”

For a few days, despite my total disbelief and dismay at the content and tone of her radio rant show and the heavy-handed legal response that followed, I at least had to give credit to Jeni Barnett for allowing the debate surrounding the MMR vaccine scare to continue via the comments on her own blog.
Too [...]

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Many Many Rants… and not much evidence

[Edit: I've just spotted that I wrote "pro-" where in fact I meant "anti-". Whoops. The substantive argument is still the same.]
My article on World Without Cancer will have to wait. There’s a far more pressing issue.
A few days ago Ben Goldacre posted the audio from a rather biased pro-MMR anti-MMR-vaccine radio phone-in “debate” hosted [...]

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