Escaping into Fallout feels safer than reality these days. Between anti-science nonsense, political buffoonery, and déjà vu pandemics, the wasteland offers a strange kind of refuge
Category: Chicanery
Straightforward: My Dog and My Mom Hate Quacks
The adults left the room, and quacks filled the seats. Public health isn’t being guided by science anymore—it’s being steered by loyalty, entitlement, and conspiracy theories
What the Fresh Hell Now?
Another delay on the blog series about change, because… well… from the Department of What the Fresh Hell Now, comes today’s lovely update from our once beautiful seat of government in Washington. It would seem that our dear leader has decided that if you're a veteran—and either …
The Real Epidemic: Bullshit in a Lab Coat
Fuck you, Andrew Wakefield. And Jenny McCarthy too, while we're at it. I’ve blogged about this before, but every so often, this particular rage bubble boils back to the surface like a poorly treated infection. And I get it—truly, I do. Finding out your child is autistic is life-altering. It brings …