#james lyons-weiler

James Lyon-Weiler and IPAK are running a dubious “vaxxed versus unvaxxed” study

Yesterday, as I deconstructed the antivaccine nonsense being peddled by a local “holistic” quack named Dr. David Brownstein in response to a pro-vaccine editorial published by the New York Timeslast Sunday, I couldn’t help but notice that he invoked one of the hoariest of hoary (and favorite) antivaccine tropes, the claim that there are no “vaccinated versus unvaccinated” studies and the call for…

Get out the popcorn! Leslie Manookian attacks fellow antivaxer James Lyons-Weiler

I’ve been blogging about the antivaccine movement now for over 13 years, and before that I had been refuting its misinformation online on Usenet and other discussion forums for nearly five years. So I think I have quite a bit of perspective on what constitutes being “antivaccine.” Admittedly, I sometimes liken antivaccine pseudoscience to pornography, echoing Brennan’s famous statement about how…