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Showing posts with label Kate Tietje. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kate Tietje. Show all posts

Thursday, 25 December 2014

15 complaints about pro-science skeptics from an antivaccine activist – Respectful Insolence

Having recently discovered a veritable Library with Doctor Moon of antivaccine misinformation and quackery known as Modern Alternative Mama’s blog, Facebook page, Twitter feed, and YouTube channel, I couldn’t resist taking one more drought from the same well. It is, after all, almost Christmas, and truly, as far as the blog is concerned, the discovery of Kate Tietje, a.k.a. Modern Alternative Mama, was an early Christmas gift that could not but be opened immediately. Besides, with Christmas coming up in a couple of days, after today I plan on taking a brief blog break until Friday, with the possible exception of a recent recycled & tweaked post (to make it more…Insolent) from my not-so-super-secret other blog that I’d like to expose to a greater world. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Now read on: 15 complaints about pro-science skeptics from an antivaccine activist – Respectful Insolence

Monday, 22 December 2014

How is it that I hadn’t heard of this antivaccine “warrior” before? – Respectful Insolence

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One of the depressing things about having dedicated over a decade of one’s life to combatting pseudoscience and quackery is that, no matter how much I think I’ve come to be familiar with all the woo that can be out there and all the players promoting that woo, there are always new people popping up. It’s impossible for one person to keep track of them all. Sometimes, however, there are, for example, antivaccine activists that I haven’t heard of before whom I really think I should have heard of sooner than this. Such is the case with Kate Tietje...

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How is it that I hadn’t heard of this antivaccine “warrior” before? – Respectful Insolence