Harpocrates Speaks

May 13-15 marked the eighth annual Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism (NECSS). This was the sixth time I've attended, thoug...

This post originally appeared at The Scientific Parent blog on 4/13/16 . Medical child abuse can be thought of as the flip side of medica...

This post originally appeared at The Scientific Parent blog on 4/12/16 . Recently, I wrote about the case of Justina Pelletier, whose par...

"This is not an anti-vaccine movie. We're just going to use ominous imagery to make people scared of vaccines." - Del Big...

It's not all that regular that I venture away from the topic of vaccines. I should do it more frequently (and there is one topic I reall...

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 ...