Category Archives: Vaccination

The Partisan Gap on MMR Vaccines

Posted on September 29, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Recently, a Washington Post article discussed some KFF polling data on U.S. attitudes towards vaccination. Most of the focus was on a huge partisan divide in willingness to get vaccinated for COVID, influenza, and RSV. But The Discourse missed what … Continue reading →

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Someone with Enough Money Needs to Challenge RFK Jr. and Rogan to Write a Peer Reviewed Article

Posted on June 30, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

In light of Joe Rogan’s absurd challenge to Peter Hotez to debate anti-vaxxer crank Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his podcast, we need someone to fire back an equivalent challenge: Kennedy (and, if he wants, Rogan) should submit an article … Continue reading →

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Debate Me, Bro

Posted on June 21, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

While in Houston over the long weekend, I did manage to catch the whole ‘debate me bro’ harassment of Peter Hotez by anti-vaccination sympathizer and podcaster Joe Rogan. Dr Sky Skull blows apart the inanity of Rogan’s argument, so, fortunately, … Continue reading →

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A Glass Half-Empty on Attitudes on MMR Vaccination

Posted on February 24, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

A few days ago, YouGov released some polling data about people’s attitudes towards child vaccination requirements, asking specifically about ‘measles, mumps, and rubella’ (MMR), ‘infectious diseases’, and ‘COVID-19’. Here’s what they found:

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Some of Us Knew Anti-Vaxx Was Going to Be a Problem…

Posted on December 2, 2021 by mikethemadbiologist

And nobody listened. A while ago, some asshole with a blog noted: Now that it’s finally starting to dawn on some of them that anti-vaccinationism is a real problem, they are suffering from ahistoricity. Listening to them, one would think … Continue reading →

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Anti-Vaccinationism Isn’t New. At All (On the Ahistoricity of the Modern Pundit)

Posted on October 15, 2021 by mikethemadbiologist

One of the darkly amusing phenomena of the pandemic has been watching Thinky Thought Leaders who’ve made a career out of knowing Econ101 and Stats101 and then broadcasting their HAWT TAEKS flounder around because they lack domain expertise and domain … Continue reading →

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Inchoate Conspiracies

Posted on September 10, 2021 by mikethemadbiologist

We really need to understand that the most individual conspiracies aren’t coherent on their own, but allow conspiracists to plug in their own ‘facts’ (boldface mine): Instead, conspiracy theories are most effectively spread by a scattershot approach of supposition, question-begging, … Continue reading →

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The GOP Has Become a Death Cult: The Ohio Vaccination Edition

Posted on June 1, 2021 by mikethemadbiologist

One point I’ve made over the years is, if you really want to know what Republicans think, look at state and local Republicans, not the national ones, who are usually more polished. From Ohio (boldface mine): Republicans in the state … Continue reading →

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Vaccine Hesitancy Among the Politically Unaffiliated

Posted on May 14, 2021 by mikethemadbiologist

Or perhaps it should be called ‘hesitancy.’ This, by Harry Enten, is going to sound depressingly familiar to anyone who has tried to get people to vote (boldface mine): A look at the data reveals that the vaccine hesitant group, … Continue reading →

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Rethinking Our Vaccine Distribution System

Posted on April 28, 2021 by mikethemadbiologist

I won’t pretend I got this right ahead of time, other than a sort of generic ‘recognize get vaccinated will be harder for some people than others’, but it’s becoming increasingly clear that, in the U.S., our distribution system for … Continue reading →

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