Harpocrates Speaks

The other day, I got into a discussion with someone calling for Congressional hearings on the DeStefano 2004 study that is the latest to-do ...

The other day, a friend of mine wrote a blog post about how an anti-vaccine Facebook page was taken over by someone who worked their way up ...

This will be a very brief post. As I was reading Orac's post about Donald Trump's anti-vaccine musings , one thing kept jumping out ...

Be a community immunity superhero! I meant to do this post at the beginning of the month. I really did. But life finds ways of interferi...

Nothing weird or dorky to see here. Ever feel like you don't quite belong? That something you do, or something you're interested...

There's a topic that I've touched on a few times over the years here, but I've never really delved into it. It's something...

Did you learn nothing from this movie, Jim? [ Update 7/2/15 at 6:30pm: Jim Carrey has removed the tweets mentioned below and replaced t...

June 30, 2015 - A happy day for California children! This is just a very brief post to celebrate the triumph of science and public healt...

Humans love to have choices. From early on in our childhood, we like to be able to choose what we want to do. Play with this toy or th...

It is with a very, very heavy heart that I write this. I recently learned that a member of our community, known to most as "Lilady...