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David Kirby HuffPost, Take 2: My Original Story was Flawed, So Here’s A Second (”Corrected”) Story That’s Still Flawed, But I Hope I Can Snow You Under Again This Time…
11 Comments Published June 22nd, 2008 in Autism, Child Health, Fallacious Medical Reporting, Infant Health, MMR Vaccine, Medical & Epidemiological Studies, Medical Reporting, Quacks, VaccinesGet a load of this. David Kirby has rewritten and re-posted his story from Friday (June 20). The new June 21st story is entitled, CDC: Vaccine Study Used Flawed Methods. It starts with the following:
(NOTE: My original post on this topic mischaracterized the 2003 CDC vaccine investigation as an “Ecological Study,” which it was not. […]
David Kirby: HuffPost Report on CDC’s Vaccine Safety Datalink Uninformative and Completely Misleading
29 Comments Published June 21st, 2008 in Autism, Child Health, Fallacious Medical Reporting, Infant Health, MMR Vaccine, Medical & Epidemiological Studies, Medical Reporting, Quacks, Vaccines“Medical reporter” David Kirby has delivered a potentially explosive report to his unfortunate and misinformed minions at the Huffington Post, in which he shows a startling string of misunderstandings and complete lack of knowledge of basic epidemiologic design and methods. Furthermore, he writes that Dr. Julie Gerberding “admits to a startling string of errors in […]
Rock Hill, South Carolina Blues
9 Comments Published June 5th, 2008 in Autism, Child Health, Infant Health, MMR Vaccine, Medical News Briefs, Quacks, VaccinesThis title isn’t quite correct, but I couldn’t resist, since it sounds so catchy, evoking images of harmonica playing in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Rock Hill is located in beautiful York County, South Carolina, just off Route I-77, about 30 miles from Charlotte, North Carolina. From my nerdy scientist’s point of view, the people of […]