Anti-Anti-Vax Steve Novella

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[leporidus]

Dr Novella is one of these people with apparently never-ceasing energy. He writes on his own neurologicablog, on sciencebasedmedicine, on sgublog ("The Rogues Gallery") and on skepticblog. He's conducting and editing two podcasts (SGU and 5x5). All this between family and work.

Who needs sleep, right?

[thesheep91]

Steven fucking Novella! Gotta love him!

Where can I see the rest of this video?

[wgfcrafty]

@marlorodo I agreeezzzzz dem farmecutical kompaniesss kill muh babayayiesssss!!!!!!!!11!11

Holy shit. Companies whose best interest for profit is developing blockbuster drugs to make billions by SAVING PEOPLE have your worst interest in mind? Not only would hurting you, hurt their profits, but would open them up to gigantic lawsuits.

Besides, IF (which they don't) vaccines cause autism, as Pen and Teller point out, you would still be better off vaccinating.

[eskosmap]

@mathkills Your question was answered in the video at about 4:45. Dr Novella states that the true rate of autism doesn't appear to be increasing, it's probably just an artifact of modern diagnosis.

[mathkills]

My field is not anything even remotely related to autism, so I was hoping that maybe an expert (or the next best thing) would read my question and pose an answer. Could the increase in autism simply be due to the lack of evolutionary processes in modern humans, specifically due to the extremely large breeding population, and the lack of any of these diseases really shortening a persons chance to have offspring (ie better medical care, etc) ??

[johnnyd101]

@marlorodo bullshit and its ph not f

[macornelius]

Yeah, @marlorodo, those doctors that have dedicated their lives to saving lives are just greedy and empirical knowledge has no place in medicine. Eating boogers on MTV is a much better qualification to make a scientific statement than actual research.

[cyranothe2nd]

@marlorodo No doctor can guarantee that a baby will be healthy for life. And, rather than chalk it up to bad luck, people like poor Ms. McCarthy are looking for someone to blame, evidence be damned. She doesn't care that there isn't a shred of real evidence to support her position--she just needs it to be someone's fault because if it's not, she has to accept that sometimes things just happen. And that's sad. Because there are a lot of dumb ppl that will listen to her and their kids will suffer.

[jwlbailey]

Love your podcasts Doctor - keep 'em coming! The Novella brothers rock!

[marlorodo]

When a doctor tells you there is something wrong with your babay after he was born healthy you have to find an answer. Miss Mc Carthy is a wonderfull human person and mother. If you are an intelligent person and you see around yourself all the selfishness from the doctors, farmaceutics and healthcare systems, you come to a simple conclusion, they dont care, not one bit.

[803brando]

some of the authors, it was 10 authors that retracted.