Vaccine Evangelists, Apostates, & Apologists – Part 7: The Apologist’s Playbook

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by Jordan Henderson This is the 7th and final installment of this essay series. Here is the itinerary of the final installment: It’s been a while since the publication of the 6th installment, so to get back in the rhythm of the series I’ll kick off this installment with some classic anti-vaccinationist fun – juxtaposing pro-vaccine … Continue reading Vaccine Evangelists, Apostates, & Apologists – Part 7: The Apologist’s Playbook

Vaccine Evangelists, Apostates, and Apologists – Part 6: The Apologists Continued

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by Jordan Henderson This is the sixth, and penultimate, installment of the essay series, Vaccine Evangelists, Apostates and Apologists. This series is a study of the vaccine debate itself, using historical mortality questions as the focal point of this analysis. Here are the links to the earlier installments: Part 1 – The Evangelists Part 2 – … Continue reading Vaccine Evangelists, Apostates, and Apologists – Part 6: The Apologists Continued

Vaccine Evangelists, Apostates and Apologists: Part 5 – The Apologists

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by Jordan Henderson This is the fifth installment of the essay series, Vaccine Evangelists, Apostates and Apologists. Here are the links to the earlier installments: Part 1 - The Evangelists Part 2 – Apostasy Part 3 - The Red Herring: A Tour of the Motte Part 4 – Spanish Death Data This essay installment is centered … Continue reading Vaccine Evangelists, Apostates and Apologists: Part 5 – The Apologists

VACCINE EVANGELISTS, APOSTATES, AND APOLOGISTS: PART 4 – SPANISH DEATH DATA

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by Jordan Henderson Brief recap (skip if the previous essays are fresh in your mind) We’ve reviewed in this essay series historical infectious disease mortality, and the introduction (or lack thereof) of widespread vaccination for various diseases in England and Wales, in Australia, and in the USA (we reviewed this in Part 2: Apostasy). We’ve seen … Continue reading VACCINE EVANGELISTS, APOSTATES, AND APOLOGISTS: PART 4 – SPANISH DEATH DATA

Vaccine Evangelists, Apostates, and Apologists: Part 3 – The Red Herring: A Tour of the Motte

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by Jordan Henderson This is the third installment of this essay series. You can read Part 1. The Evangelists at this link here, and Part 2. Apostasy at this link here. I ended Part 2 with the following description for what’s in store in this essay - Part 3. Here’s how we ended the last essay. … Continue reading Vaccine Evangelists, Apostates, and Apologists: Part 3 – The Red Herring: A Tour of the Motte

Vaccine Evangelists, Apostates, and Apologists: Part 2 – Apostasy

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by Jordan Henderson In Part 1 we focused on the preaching of the Vaccine Evangelists. Now we will review the work of Vaccine Apostates in which the Apostates have debunked the preaching of the Vaccine Evangelists. If you have yet to read Part 1 of this series, you may wish to do so before reading Part … Continue reading Vaccine Evangelists, Apostates, and Apologists: Part 2 – Apostasy

Walking With Goats: The Why That Goes In All Directions

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by our regular guest columnist Walking With Goats Hello again, dear fellow humans. I do believe it’s spring. I’m lucky to be alive and well and happy for the most part – and more than anything I hope that you can say the same. We live poised in such strange times. I’m excited to report to you … Continue reading Walking With Goats: The Why That Goes In All Directions

The occluded root: how modern war was waged upon old healing arts

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by Rahul Goswami In every market-street in the city of Bombay (which later came to be called Mumbai), and outside most of the larger and busier commuter railway stations, sat vendors of medicinal plants and herbs. There were usually no more than two or three at each market centre. They would spread their collection on … Continue reading The occluded root: how modern war was waged upon old healing arts