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Mashup Score: 1How antivaxxers weaponize vaccine safety studies to falsely portray vaccines as dangerous | Science-Based Medicine - 2 month(s) ago
Antivaxxers have weaponized a huge vaccine safety study that found rare adverse events and concluded that the benefits of COVID-19 vaccines outweigh the risks.
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Mashup Score: 23More Evidence that Ignoring Safe Sleep Advice Puts Babies at Risk of Unexpected Death | Science-Based Medicine - 2 month(s) ago
A new stud of thousands of cases confirms that sharing a sleep surface with a caregiver significantly increases the risk of unexpected death in infancy.
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Mashup Score: 57Separating Fact from Fiction in the Newborn Nursery: Hepatitis B Vaccine for Newborns | Science-Based Medicine - 3 month(s) ago
For those of you new to Science-Based Medicine, I am a pediatric hospitalist and spend the majority of my time caring for newborns. It’s an extremely rewarding experience on most days. The babies are usually healthy, the parents are usually happy and appreciative, and I get to give a lot of good news. I also get to dispel a lot of myths…
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Mashup Score: 36
[Editor’s note: We have two posts today, this post by our regular contributor Dr. Clay Jones, and an excellent guest post by William London about a chiropractor’s dubious neuropathy treatment protocol. Enjoy today or over the weekend!] As a pediatrician, even one who has spent the majority of his career caring only for hospitalized children, the death of a patient has been…
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Mashup Score: 1Music for Reducing Pain in Newborns | Science-Based Medicine - 3 month(s) ago
Newborns are exposed to painful procedures for good reason every day. Treating pain is important in this population, and music might play a role. At least it definitely won’t hurt.
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Mashup Score: 0The Grand Debunk of the antivaxxer book “Turtles All the Way Down” (part 1/10) | Science-Based Medicine - 3 month(s) ago
This book — written by “Anonymous”, edited by Children’s Health Defense lawyer Mary Holland and Children’s Health Defense Publisher Liaison and Thinking Moms’ Revolution co-founder Zoey O’Toole, and published by “The Turtles Team” — purports to use only mainstream references to prove its points. But the book employs all the standard tropes in a master class of science denial and antivax tactics…
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Regular readers of this blog know that many forms of quackery and science denial have conspiracy theories associated with them, but a further examination suggests that all forms of science denial are a form of conspiracy theory. In the middle of a deadly pandemic, science denial represents a form of conspiracy theory with potentially deadly consequences.
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Mashup Score: 1The Wellness Company: How antivaccine grift becomes plain old quackery | Science-Based Medicine - 4 month(s) ago
The Wellness Company, formed by COVID quacks, is the product of a trend in which antivax doctors have predictably become just quacks.
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Mashup Score: 1A Bit of Good News: Kids Appear to Have Lower Risk of Post-COVID Conditions Than Previously Thought | Science-Based Medicine - 4 month(s) ago
Based on a recently published study using improved criteria for determining long term COVID-related health problems, it looks like kids are less likely to be negatively impacted than previously thought.
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Mashup Score: 0Trying to Impose Religion on Medicine | Science-Based Medicine - 4 month(s) ago
One of the major themes of science-based medicine (unsurprisingly) is that medicine should be based on science. We consider ourselves specialists in a larger movement defending science in general from mysticism, superstition, and spiritualism. We are not against anyone’s personal belief, and are officially agnostic toward any faith (as is science itself), but will vigorously defend science from any intrusion into its…
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How antivaxxers weaponize vaccine safety studies to falsely portray vaccines as dangerous https://t.co/7PZ0vtCP1p via @gorskon