[BPSDB]Mike Adams of Natural News has given us the benefit of his thinking on the UK flu vaccine shortage. He opens with: After months of hyping up the flu scare across the UK, the mad rush of citizens seeking to buy the vaccine has caused a severe shortage. UK hospitals and clinics have run out [...]

From Letting Off Steam
http://jaycueaitch.wordpress.com/2011/01/16/mike-adams-on-the-uk-flu-vaccine-shortage/
1/17/2011 1:11:22 AM
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Oh, geez. Mike Adams is at it again.

I know, I know, saying that Mike Adams has just laid down yet another hunk of napalm-grade--nay, hydrogen-bomb grade--burning stupid is akin to saying that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, that water is wet, that we need oxygen to survive, or that the moon rotates around the sun. It's part of nature and a well-established fact. Even so, sometimes Adams surpasses even himself. Sometimes, when doing so, he even gives me an opportunity to discuss a scientific study and thus look as though I'm actually blogging about peer-reviewed research instead of having fun laying down some not-so-Respectful Insolence on a quack.

Actually, the beauty of the blogging niche I've created for myself is that, sometimes, I can do both in one post.

This time around, Mike Adams has gotten himself into a fine lather about a study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases by investigators from the Center for Infectious [...]

From Respectful Insolence
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10/28/2011 5:30:00 AM
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[BPSDB]Mike Adams of Natural News is still banging on about the UK seasonal flu vaccine shortage. He makes his case by completely misunderstanding UK health care provision and invoking Andrew Wakefield’s fraudulent research. After months of urging everyone to get vaccinated (and blaming non-vaccinated people for skipping out on their “public health obligation”), UK health [...]

From Letting Off Steam
http://jaycueaitch.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/flu-vaccines-quackery/
1/24/2011 8:39:05 AM
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Mike Adams thinks it does. In fact, he’s sure of it. And boy, is he excited. Check out his recent column, and compare that with what the actual study says. First, Adams, with Seasonal flu vaccines increase risk of pandemic...

From Skeptico
http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2010/04/does-seasonal-influenza-vaccination-increase-the-risk-of-illness-with-the-2009-ah1n1-pandemic-virus.html
4/9/2010 2:01:38 PM
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My father is an OB/GYN and, I'll say it, new mothers-to-be are often a very nervous group of people. Don't get me wrong, it might just be the parasite talking, but they ask questions like, "Is shampoo bad while I'm pregnant?" (Answer: Not if you don't drink gallons of it.) So, what about pregnancy and vaccinations? I mean, there you are actually injecting something into a woman. (Needles + pregnancy + fear)^ignorance = catnip for predatory fear-mongers like Mike Adams.
He can't help himself, I suppose. He is ruthlessly exploitive. He uses people's fears to sell them their dreams. There is no more simple marketing strategy, though that does not make it ethical. So, what is this grass-eating glob of monkey mucus saying? It came in an email to me this morning entitled:
H1N1 vaccine linked to 700 percent increase in [...]

From Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes
http://hjhop.blogspot.com/2010/12/mike-adams-inadvertently-reassures-me.html
12/9/2010 11:25:00 AM
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Mike Adams sends me lots of stupid shit. You know Mike. He's the self-appointed health ranger, a title as ridiculous as it is meaningless. But he sent me an especially fragrant doodie a few days ago that I wanted to share with you. It's about his comic strip, CounterThink (yeah, I don't think he has a sense of the exquisite irony), and the email begins:

Did you know about all the hilarious, outrageous cartoons on health topics available now at NaturalNews.com? They're called CounterThink Cartoons, and I designed each cartoon myself, then hired a professional illustrator to draw them. Each cartoon features a hilarious view on a controversial topic like vaccines, biofuels, Big Pharma and more.

From Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes
http://hjhop.blogspot.com/2010/05/mike-adams-laughing-stock.html
6/1/2010 11:47:00 AM
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This was going to be a blog post which looked at a couple of recent claims made by Mike Adams on his NaturalNews blog. It’s going to be a bit shorter than I’d planned, for reasons I’ll come to. First, he posted recently about a recall of flu vaccines. His only source is the Daily [...]

From Cubik's Rube
http://cubiksrube.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/naturalnews-in-vaccine-scare-story-shocker/
11/12/2011 9:28:10 AM
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This was going to be a blog post which looked at a couple of recent claims made by Mike Adams on his NaturalNews blog. It’s going to be a bit shorter than I’d planned, for reasons I’ll come to. First, he posted recently about a recall of flu vaccines. His only source is the Daily [...]

From Cubik's Rube
https://cubiksrube.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/naturalnews-in-vaccine-scare-story-shocker/
11/12/2011 9:28:10 AM
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Hey there, it's been a while. Life stays busy. 
But I do keep thinking of things I should blog skeptically about, I just have trouble finding the time to do so.
I recently received a rather ludicrous anonymous comment on this previous post about Mike Adams.  It is on one of my most popular posts, but you don't have to read the post in order to appreciate what follows.  But the content of the comment (essentially a diatribe about how great Mike Adams is and how filthy-evil [...]

From Confessions of an Asshole Skeptic
http://assholeskeptic.blogspot.com/2011/10/who-is-more-foolish.html
10/10/2011 7:11:00 AM
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So Mike wrote a blog entry about the problems they are having with the flu vaccine in Australia. The flu vaccine was stopped because there was an unusually high number of adverse effects, and they are now looking into it to figure out why. Well, no need for them to do it, Mike already has [...]

From Skepfeeds-The Best Skeptical blogs of the day
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5/13/2010 1:38:32 AM
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When it rains it pours, as they say.

Yes, sometimes there's so much going on that I can't possibly blog about it all, particularly now that I've cut back a bit. This week seems to be turning into one of those weeks. Yesterday, I couldn't resist having a bit of fun with the grande dame of the anti-vaccine movement, Barbara Loe Fisher when she released a seriously hypocritical and silly press release whining about how mistreated she thinks her organization, the Orwellian-named National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) has been because the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) had the audacity to--gasp!--write a letter to Delta Airlines complaining about its airing of an NVIC video about the flu vaccine that was cleverly packed with subtle misinformation topped off with a link to the NVIC website and its cornucopia of anti-vaccine canards. However, to have that bit of fun, I had [...]

From Respectful Insolence
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/scienceblogs/insolence/~3/p2aOK-h1XH8/the_return_of_medical_hypotheses.php
11/18/2011 3:00:00 AM
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Dennis Paul “Dr.” Knicely runs a website called “Healingnews”, which is, basically, exactly what you think it is. Knicely claims to be able to heal pretty much every ailment known to man with fluff, woo and positive thinking (a remarkable remedy – if you didn’t get well, you just didn’t think positively enough). The website has some original [...]

From Encyclopedia of American Loons
http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2011/05/217-dennis-paul-knicely.html
5/30/2011 3:32:00 AM
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In the process of laying down a little of the ol' not-so-Respectful Insolence on the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), Barbara Loe Fisher, and Jenny McCarthy yesterday, I briefly discussed what the term "antivaccine" means. It's a topic I've discussed at length before and that Steve Novella recently wrote about. The long version is in the links, but the short version is that, unlike the "pharma shill gambit" favored by antivaccine activists and others who aren't too fond of science-based medicine (SBM), it's not [...]

From Respectful Insolence
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12/30/2011 4:00:00 AM
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As ever, in the cause of promoting skeptical thought and critical thinking while on the internet, I've been out there on the tubes causing trouble. The campaign to put Dr Rachael Dunlop into the lead of the Shorty Awards Health category has been very successful. Very successful indeed.

Of course, during the making of this very successful campaign, it's become clear that not only is Mike Adams a quack, but he's also a mass-email marketer and colluder with big business, a supporter of Scientology and their front-group CCHR, and a general butthurt whining hypocrite.

He's also the originator of a $10,000 [...]

From A Drunken Madman
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ADrunkenMadman/~3/h9dPAuxissw/454.aspx
1/23/2010 6:31:13 AM
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Here is a recap of the stories that appeared in recent weeks at Science-Based Medicine, a multi-author skeptical blog that separates the science from the woo in medicine.

Avastin and metastatic breast cancer: When science-based medicine collides with FDA regulation ( David Gorski) The FDA expedited approval of Avastin for treatment of metastatic breast cancer because studies showed it increased progression-free survival. Post-approval studies showed it didn’t increase overall survival and it caused complications, so a panel recommended its approval be revoked. This has led to a controversy where science, economics, politics, and dying cancer patients intersect in what are sometimes very ugly ways.  

Kaiser [...]

From James Randi Educational Foundation
http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/jref-news/1106-recently-at-science-based-medicine.html
10/12/2010 3:24:57 AM
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