Tag: antivax

by Leonid Schneider June 26, 2019 28
Medicine News Open Letter Smut Clyde

Vaccine critic Yehuda Shoenfeld elected member of Israel Academy

Yehuda Shoenfield is either a genius or a quack of autoimmunity research, depending on which side you stand in the antivax debate. He is also apparently a plagiarist, even Wikipedia is not safe. And this is why he is now a Member of Israel Academy of Sciences.

by Leonid Schneider December 20, 2018 21
Academic Publishing Smut Clyde

Frontiers: a danger for public health?

Frontiers is a somewhat unconventional open access publisher, which likes to have it both ways: playing scientific elite while accepting almost anything from paying customers. My regular contributor Smut Clyde will tell you below how some anti-vaccine scare-mongers managed to sneak in some rather dangerous works thanks to Frontiers’ unofficial “we don’t judge, we just charge” quasi-policy.