Since I started this blog in April, I can’t count the number of times I’ve come across statements on other blogs like, “Epidemiology is just statistical manipulation of data.”  This usually comes from an anti-vaccinationist commenter who clearly has never even opened an introductory epidemiology textbook.
So I was happy to see the article in the […]

A recent article by Deirdre Imus on The Huffington Post is long tirade against Alice Park’s Time magazine cover story, How Safe Are Vaccines? It’s been pointed out on other science blogs (and I wholeheartedly agree) that the the Time magazine article is one of the better pieces of medical journalism this year. I really […]