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Wednesday House Call July 19, 2017: Believe the antivaccine propaganda and children will reap what you sow
Wednesday House Call July 19, 2017 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to discuss the latest health stories of the week. Today:Methadone treatment centres and the deficiency in mental health services coordination. You calls about wild parsnip exposure, treating plantar warts, approaches to mitigating agoraphobia and anxiety, tooth pain, and my comments on mandatory childhood…
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Measles now endemic in Europe: The predictable outcome of ignorance, fake data, and anti-science
Health Headlines Commentary for July 13, 2017 Source: Measles ‘tragedy’ kills 35 across Europe Correction: I commented that Andrew Wakefield published his discredited and retracted Lancet study in 2008. It was 1998. The point I was making was10 years after the MMR-Autism hoax/scare, the chickens were coming home to roost in terms of the effect…
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Reaping the rewards of fake science anti-vaxxers; Measles outbreaks in Europe and Mumps in Canada
Health Headlines Commentary for April 11, 2017 Source: Mumps outbreak could climb as high as 600 cases before waning Measles in Europe: Romania and Italy hit hardest
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Trump’s actions legitimize anti-vaccination conspiracies by hiring conspiracy advocate to investigate vaccines
Health Headlines Commentary for January 11, 2017 Source: Trump asks skeptic to probe vaccine safety, alarming doctors
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US Pediatricians can dismiss from practice children whose parents refuse to approve vaccination. What does this accomplish?
Health Headlines Commentary for August 31, 2016 Source: As More Parents Refuse Vaccines, More Doctors Dismiss Them — With AAP’s Blessing
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Forcing anti-vaxxer parents to take an immunization course will lead to the Backfire Effect
Health Headlines Commentary for May 13, 2016 Source: Ontario parents who object to vaccines could be forced to take a class in science of immunization Backfire Effect: The Misconception: When your beliefs are challenged with facts, you alter your opinions and incorporate the new information into your thinking. The Truth: When your deepest convictions are challenged…
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Disinformation and mistrust leading to pockets of vaccine hesitancy
Health Headlines Commentary for December 18, 2015 Source: Vaccine ‘hesitancy’ persists among Canadian parents of young children, Ottawa survey suggests
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Sunday House Call, #539, July 12, 2015: The University of Quackademia
Sunday House Call, #539, July 12, 2015: The University of Quackademia Topics today include:The University of Toronto Scarborough enters the quackademia arena, an antivaxer argues for autrism link with vaccines and ignores evidence, a classic illustration of confirmation bias, backfire effect, cherry-picking of studies, and causation fallacy, the causes of coronary artery disease and the…
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Childhood measles coming back to North America
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for September 13, 2013 [display_podcast] Source: U.S. measles cases in 2013 may be most in 17 years