Harpocrates Speaks

Conflicts of interest (COIs) are very important considerations in research. The most obvious COIs are financial; the researcher may receiv...

The other day, I wrote about the incorrect claim that there are 69 doses of vaccine on the U.S. recommended childhood immunization schedule...

Every now and then, we hear about some event in the news. Sometimes it can cause unjustified panic, like when people in the U.S. started pan...

Please note additional edits to this article, particularly those added after 2/3/16, with the publication of the new 2016 recommended schedu...

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...