CHILDMYTHS

The "Childmyths" blog is a spin-off of Jean Mercer's book "Thinking Critically About Child Development: Examining Myths & Misunderstandings"(Sage, 2015; third edition). The blog focuses on parsing mistaken beliefs that can influence people's decisions about childrearing-- for example, beliefs about day care, about punishment, about child psychotherapies, and about adoption. See also http://thestudyofnonsense.blogspot.com

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Friday, January 14, 2011

Autism, Vaccines, and the Wakefield Study: III: Why Jenny McCarthy Still Believes

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Over the last ten days, two articles by the investigative reporter Brian Deer, published in the British Medical Journal , have shown that th...

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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Autism, Vaccines, and the Wakefield Study: II. The Apparent Motives

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In my last post, I described some important reasons for the rejection of Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 paper that claimed a causal link between th...

Autism,Vaccines, and the Wakefield Study: I. Reasons to Reject Wakefield's Report

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Early in 2010, there was an excited reaction to the retraction by the British journal Lancet of an article published by Andrew Wakefield a...

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Jean Mercer: Jean Mercer has a Ph.D in Psychology from Brandeis University, earned when that institution was 20 years old (you do the math). She is Professor Emerita of Psychology at Richard Stockton College, where for many years she taught developmental psychology, research methods, perception, and history of psychology. Since about 2000 her focus has been on potentially dangerous child psychotherapies, and she has published several related books and a number of articles in professional journals. Her CV can be seen at http://childmyths.blogspot.com/2009/12/curriculum-vitae-jean.mercer-richard.html.

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