In this category I write about vaccinations and address concerns and misconceptions that some have. I also write about interesting new developments.
You’ve likely come across articles on Facebook or health blogs that warn about toxic chemicals in products. Typically they mention the name of the chemical, list the dangerous effects, maybe a personal story and tell you...
Test ideas by experiments and observations. Build on those ideas that pass the test. Reject the ones that fail. Follow the evidence wherever it leads, and question everything. Accept these terms, and the cosmos...
It’s come to my attention that there seems to be a misunderstanding circulating of who exactly determines our children’s vaccination schedule. It seems that some are under the impression that it is the pharmaceutical companies...
Thimerosal (or thiomersal) in vaccines is probably one of the most brought up things in a conversation with people who are concerned with vaccination. So at the start it’s good to clarify that in the...
Elmo from Sesame Street has some concerns about vaccination which he talks over with US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy. Unfortunately there is a lot of mis-information regarding vaccinations on the internet and this is causing fear...
Having recently written about Edward Jenner and the first vaccine, it makes sense to ask the question, “How did the vaccine work?” Edward Jenner simply knew that giving someone the cowpox disease prevented an...
This is the story of Edward Jenner, who saved more lives than the work of any other human being. His discovery eventually led to the eradication of smallpox that took 300 – 500 million people to...
Smallpox with a mortality rate of 20 – 30% is what the girl in the photograph above has. It’s a shocking image of a terrible disease that few now alive have ever seen in existence (I’d...
