Tag Archives: Horror

Manufactured Crisis — HPV, Hype and Horror

Editor’s Note: This article is a reprint. It was originally published December 8, 2018. The HPV vaccine Gardasil was granted European license in February 2006,1 followed by U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval that same year in June.2 Gardasil was controversial in the U.S. from the beginning, with vaccine safety activists questioning the quality… Read More »

Inside the ‘Amityville Horror’ house today, Long Island’s most notorious mansion

One of the country’s most famously creepy houses is back in the news. Ronald DeFeo Jr., the notorious killer at the “Amityville Horror” house — a dwelling whose mystique continues to fascinate the public in the wake of a subsequent book and film franchise — died in prison Friday at 69.   DeFeo, whose nickname was Butch, spread terror… Read More »