Posted by vaccinexchange on May 22, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Dr. Paul Offit is the Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and author of such fear-mongering titles as Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All and Killing Us Softly: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine. Next month, the good professor is also going to be teaching … Read more
Posted by vaccinexchange on April 19, 2012 · 1 Comment
Forbes currently has an article up that can at best be described as an ode to the HPV vaccine. Uncritically presenting the view of pharmaceutical industries, the article is so incredibly misleading that we thought we would point out some of its fallacies here. The writer begins by describing the case of Neal Fowler, not … Read more
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Posted by vaccinexchange on March 30, 2012 · 1 Comment
We have written here before about the way in which Merck marketed Gardasil in order to maximize fear of cervical cancer – a disease that regular pap smears prevent anyway. Our previous post focused specifically on the ways in which Merck manipulated the information available to physicians. Now, an exceedingly interesting study just released in … Read more
Posted by vaccinexchange on December 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment
We have been writing about the anthrax vaccine here at Vaccine Xchange for some time. It seems clear that Emergent BioSolutions, the maker of the only human anthrax vaccine (BioThrax) currently available in the US, is working to aggressively market the vaccine, including ensuring that its vaccine is authorized for use for use after inhaling … Read more
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Posted by vaccinexchange on November 3, 2011 · Leave a Comment
This week, the American Public Health Association is holding their annual meeting in Washington, DC. Earlier this week, we wrote about a movie being featured at that meeting. Today, we’d like to talk about another presentation at that same meeting, this time dealing with parental concerns regarding vaccine safety. As the blurb on the APHA … Read more
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Posted by vaccinexchange on November 2, 2011 · Leave a Comment
A month or so ago we wrote here about the movie Contagion and the way in which it seemed to be nothing more than a marketing vehicle for vaccines. We were unsurprised, therefore, when we saw that this week, the American Public Health Association featured the movie in one of their … Read more
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