Herd Immunity

14Apr13

A very quick post as I’ve loads of other things I should be doing. Like ironing shirts for the first day back tomorrow. But I got into a brief discussion on Twitter about measles data being a topical way to get kids thinking about patterns, and it was pointd out to me that I never […]

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Tags: Herd immunity, mmr, printable, teaching

Getting Spammed By Mabus

03Apr11

I’m told that getting Twitter-spammed by the troll Mabus is recognition that I’ve annoyed somebody by commenting about alternative medicine. Is it sad that I feel proud? I ignored him and intend to continue to do so. It happened in the process of a discussion on Twitter with a chiropractor, @Liam_Mulvany – who I am […]

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Tags: Alternative, badscience, Chiropractic, Health, Scientific method

Immunisation 4/5 Choices

26Jan11

This is the fourth of five posts designed as a teaching mini-scheme about the controversy surrounding the MMR vaccination; it is partly inspired by the recently published work by Brian Deer. Please note I feel, quite strongly, that MMR is safe and highly desirable (albeit underused in the UK right now). This is my effort to […]

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Tags: Brian Deer, Education, MMR vaccine controversy, Student, teaching

Immunisation 3/5

18Jan11

This is the third of five posts designed as a teaching mini-scheme about the controversy surrounding the MMR vaccination; it is partly inspired by the recently published work by Brian Deer. Please note I feel, quite strongly, that MMR is safe and highly desirable (albeit underused in the UK right now). This is my effort […]

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Tags: Andrew Wakefield, Ben Goldacre, Brian Deer, MMR vaccine controversy

Immunisation 2/5 Correlation and Causation

11Jan11

This is the second of five posts designed as a teaching mini-scheme about the controversy surrounding the MMR vaccination; it is partly inspired by the recently published work by Brian Deer. Please note I feel, quite strongly, that MMR is safe and highly desirable (albeit underused in the UK right now). This is my effort […]

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Tags: Brian Deer, Correlation and dependence, Matt Parker

Immunisation 1/5 Infection

11Jan11

This will be the first of five posts designed as a teaching mini-scheme about the controversy surrounding the MMR vaccination; it is partly inspired by the recently published work by Brian Deer. Please note I feel, quite strongly, that MMR is safe and highly desirable (albeit underused in the UK right now). This is my […]

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