Harpocrates Speaks

Arrr. Ahoy there, mateys! It be Talk Like a Pirate Day . Time t' hoist the jolie rouge.

A reader recently sent me a link to this video . It's a nice, short, humorous way to present the impact that vaccines have had on public...

It's so cute when anti-vaccine activists try to use citations to bolster their arguments. Quite often, it seems as if they simply read t...

Back on Monday, Labor Day, I wrote about an execrable piece of reporting that appeared on CBS This Morning just over a week ago. The story ...

Back in June, I wrote a post in which I tried to understand the murder of Alex Spourdalakis by his mother, Dorothy Spourdalakis, and his ca...

Last week, I wrote a post in response to an article by a journalist named Matthew Mientka . His article was an illustration of sloppy, lazy ...

Research is expensive. Lab techs, study coordinators, grad students and post-docs have their salaries (often a pittance compared to the impo...

I try to be a patient person. In general, I give people the benefit of the doubt, assume that they are well-intentioned. And for the most pa...

Most of you have probably heard by now that anti-vaccine activist Jenny McCarthy has been picked to be a host on ABC's The View . Follow...

I know I've been remiss in writing new posts lately. "Real" life has intruded and kept my time limited and my mind a bit preoc...