Category Archives: science denial

Measles surge years after vaccine-autism scare: science denial comes home to roost

Posted on May 27, 2013 by Tom Schoenfeld

The AP reported this past week that the incidence of measles has surged in the UK since Andrew Wakefield and colleagues first made their report in 1998, now considered fraudulent, that cases of autism are linked to administration of the … Continue reading →

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The moral and scientific issues surrounding Plan B

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Tom Schoenfeld

I have struggled with the appropriate reading of the issues swirling around the implementation of Plan B as an approved and freely available emergency contraceptive. On the one hand, there is the clear scientific evidence that Plan B is a … Continue reading →

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Our “Darwin problem” is really about power and influence (and doubt)

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Tom Schoenfeld

A key challenge to the public perception and acceptance of science, and to the scientists and science writers charged with communicating scientific results to an interested public, is the increasingly common rejection of mainstream science by influential non-scientists. A long-standing … Continue reading →

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