Andrew Wakefield, the author of the highly discredited paper linking autism to the MMR vaccine; the guy that started the whole MMR vaccine scaremongering and led to significant drop to vaccination rates; the guy that failed to adhere to strict ethical requirements for clinical research in children;

This is getting a bit repetitive but further evidence on the complete absence of any link between the MMR vaccine and autism have been presented in a Polish study lead by Dr. Dorota Mrozek-Budzyn

I was surprised last week to see a number of media reports on the apparent safety of the MMR vaccine and that, no, it doesn’t cause autism after all… Loads of evidence have been gathered over the last decade that conclusively show that MMR has nothing to do with autism whatsoever, yet even nowadays some still argue about this!

Brent council had to start an awareness campaign to motivate parents to start vaccinating their children again! Thanks to some idiots who *still* promote the idea that vaccines cause autism, measles have been on the rise again and people are now facing the consequences. So here is my question: what is the problem of the anti-vaccination lunatics? Vote now!

Ben Goldacre, of “The Guardian” fame, currently sits top of the charts in Amazon book sales in the Popular Science category. His (very) recent book “Bad Science” was an immediate hit, something that is both comforting and a bit unexpected (at least for me).

The Internet needs a way to help people separate rumour from real science, said Tim Berners-Lee -the creator of the World Wide Web.

Delving deep into the science blogosphere this past week, I bring to you, my beloved readers, the highest quality content from around the globe! We’ve got stuff on how BBC got it wrong on the geographical mapping of happiness in Britain; ten things you didn’t know about Earth; another failed test of the vaccine-autism link hypothesis; lists of questions flying all around the place -for biologists, pastors, students…

A battle, hopefully not the whole war. And of course it is a battle of misinformation and propaganda not one of science and evidence!