‘Vaccine Epidemic’ book launch party invades my alma mater, part 4

 Posted by on March 26, 2011  9 Responses »
Mar 262011
 

This is the final part of my report on the book launch for Vaccine Epidemic: How Corporate Greed, Biased Science, and Coercive Government Threaten Our Human Rights, Our Health, and Our Children, held at New York University (part 1, part 2 and part 3). After two previous panels, we were promised that the last panel would finally address the science motivating the book’s participating authors’ and editors’ concerns over vaccination. The themes this panel would be discussing would include herd immunity, epidemiology and questions about causation, trust between physician and patient, and the suppression of science, though I must have ———->FULL ARTICLE

‘Vaccine Epidemic’ book launch party invades my alma mater, part 3

 Posted by on March 12, 2011  11 Responses »
Mar 122011
 

This is part 3 of my report on the book launch for Vaccine Epidemic: How Corporate Greed, Biased Science, and Coercive Government Threaten Our Human Rights, Our Health, and Our Children, held at New York University (part 1 and part 2). In this installment, I’ll cover the second panel discussion on the topic of personal injury stories moderated by Kim Mack Rosenberg. Yes,it’s a panel discussion on anecdotal evidence. This is also the subject of the whole second section of the book. To get a better understanding of why anecdotes are viewed by science as notoriously weak forms of evidence, ———->FULL ARTICLE

‘Vaccine Epidemic’ book launch party invades my alma mater, part 2

 Posted by on March 3, 2011  1 Response »
Mar 032011
 

Last week, I began my 4-part report on the book launch for Vaccine Epidemic: How Corporate Greed, Biased Science, and Coercive Government Threaten Our Human Rights, Our Health, and Our Children, held at New York University. In part 1, I covered the ten-minute introduction by the book’s co-authors, Louise Habakus and Mary Holland. In this second installment,  I’ll look at the first of the three panel discussions. I apologize if I seem to editorialize a little more  or become snarkier in part 2, but some of the statements made by the panel were quite audacious and difficult to treat as ———->FULL ARTICLE

‘Vaccine Epidemic’ book launch party invades my alma mater, part 1

 Posted by on February 24, 2011  8 Responses »
Feb 242011
 
'Vaccine Epidemic' book launch party invades my alma mater, part 1

On February 18, New York University hosted at Tishman Hall a book launch for Vaccine Epidemic: How Corporate Greed, Biased Science, and Coercive Government Threaten Our Human Rights, Our Health, and Our Children, co-edited by Louise Habakus and Professor Mary Holland. The book was published by Skyhorse Publishing, which also published Andrew Wakefield’s book Callous Disregard: Autism and Vaccines: The Truth Behind a Tragedy last year as well as Kim Stagliano’s recent book All I Can Handle: I’m No Mother Teresa: A Life Raising Three Daughters with Autism. This event took the form of three separate panel discussions with various ———->FULL ARTICLE