The anti-vaccination movement and resistance to allergen-immunotherapy
Sometimes, there are consequences to a pseudoscience movement that goes far beyond the immediate goals of that movement. I have written many times about the anti-vaccination lunacy, but almost always...
View ArticleChecking for pseudoscience in real science news (updated)
One of the larger problems of the internet (OK, there are a lot) is how science is discussed out in the world. Google any science topic, and you’ll get thousand or millions of hits on any idea in...
View ArticleNew research shows vaccine denialists put others at risk
In a recent article published in the American Journal of Public Health, Exposure of California Kindergartners to Students With Personal Belief Exemptions From Mandated School Entry Vaccinations, by...
View ArticleVaccine to block gluten sensitivity in celiac disease
Celiac disease (also known as coeliac disease in British English speaking countries) is an autoimmune disorder that afflicts the small intestine of certain individuals who are genetically predisposed...
View ArticleMultiple immunizations weaken immune system–Myth vs. Science
If you peruse the back alleys of the antivaccination movement, you will find a wide variety of myths that try to convince people that vaccinating children is dangerous. Or if you don’t want to...
View ArticleScience-based vaccine search engine
I have updated this website with a new science-based vaccine search engine powered by Google™. It basically searches about 200 websites that are science oriented (usually providing peer-reviewed...
View ArticleMultiple immunizations weaken children’s immune system–debunking myths
If you explore the dark and myth filled back alleys of the antivaccination movement, you will find a wide variety of myths that try to convince people that vaccinating children is dangerous. I’ve...
View ArticleBoosting the immune system–sorting science from myth
For New Year’s Day, I’m republishing the top 10 articles I wrote in 2013. Well, actually top 9, plus 1 from 2012 that just keeps going. #8. This article was published on 26 September 2013, and has had...
View ArticleDespite the meme on Facebook, bananas do not cure cancer
This article was published on 29 July 2012, and has had over 70,000 views. This is the number one article I’ve ever written, I enjoyed writing it, but I never thought it would be such a big hit. It...
View ArticleA nerdy explanation of the vaccine immune response
Attempting to explain the immune system in 1000 words or less is impossible. At least I thought it was impossible. Despite what the anti-science community believes about the immune system, it is way...
View ArticleWhy we vaccinate–saving children’s lives from meningitis
One of the enduring zombie tropes of the antivaccination cult is that pathogens aren’t dangerous because the disease is not dangerous. Through a complicated, and thoroughly unsupported by evidence,...
View ArticleRipe bananas do not prevent cancer
This is a rewrite of an article I published a couple of years ago, and updated a few months ago. I wanted to update some points, clean up some writing, and provide the TL;DR version which is both pithy...
View ArticleInfant T cells don’t remember pathogens–causes weaker immunity
If you hang out in various vaccine discussions, you will hear all kinds of odd, unscientific ideas about the immune system of infants. One of the major issues is a substantial oversimplification of the...
View ArticleIf any of these signs are true, you might not have a gluten issue
The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. Although it may seem like I write only about the lies and ignorance of the antivaccination cult, I truly despise all kinds of...
View ArticleThe pseudoscience of boosting the immune system
The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. One of the most ridiculous pseudoscientific claims that I keep hearing from the junk medicine crowd is that this supplement or that...
View ArticleAppeal to false authority – who is Tetyana Obukhanych
The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. There are so many annoying issues about the antivaccination cult, that most of us can’t even keep up with it. If only they would...
View ArticleImmune system myths – can we really boost it?
The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. Immune system myths are one of the common claims of the junk medicine medicine crowd, especially the anti-vaccine activists. The...
View ArticleChild food allergies – time to revise our recommendations and thinking
The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. When I was in public school in the 1970s, I honestly recall few kids with food allergies. Today, child food allergies are so high,...
View ArticleHPV vaccine and lupus – bad expert testimony in a lawsuit
The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. In a lawsuit filed with a court in Israel a young girl and her mother are suing, apparently (since I do not have the lawsuit, I’m...
View ArticleWhy we vaccinate–saving children’s lives from meningitis
The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. One of the enduring zombie tropes of the antivaccination cult is that pathogens aren’t dangerous because the disease is not...
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