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Just coming over the news wires: President Jimmy Carter has been taken to a hospital in Cleveland after experiencing a "health issue" on a flight to the city. Here's the CNN report. UPDATE at 9/28/10 10:15:43 am: The Carter Center has now announced that President Carter became airsick on the flight, and ...
Coming up tonight at 9pm ET on PBS Frontline: The vaccine war. (You can watch the full show over the web at this link.)
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And now we learn, from the official police statement, that Republican Rep. Eric Cantor’s claim that his Richmond office was targeted by someone who fired a bullet through the window turns out to be completely false. Richmond Police Investigate Cantor Building Vandalism March 25, 2010 The Richmond Police Department is investigating an ...
Health Care, Barack Obama, Health, Health Insurance, Bad Craziness, Threats, Eric Cantor, Bogus
Fox News reports that someone took a shot at Republican Rep. Eric Cantor’s Richmond campaign office last night. TPM has more details on the story. House Minority Whip Eric Cantor just gave a brief speech accusing Democrats of using reports of recent threats of violence for political gain, and saying someone ...
Health Care, Barack Obama, Health, Health Insurance, Bad Craziness, Threats, Eric Cantor
The coffin that was placed outside the private home of Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-Mo.) was a stunt organized by the St. Louis Tea Party Coalition and religious fanatic blogger Jim Hoft (“Gateway Pundit”), kicking his usual insanity up a notch into actual threatening behavior. And he’s proud of it. Hoft sees ...
Health Care, Barack Obama, Health, Health Insurance, Bad Craziness, Threats, Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft, First Things
Racial slurs, gas lines cut, death threats against children, and now this: Coffin placed on Carnahan’s lawn. A coffin was placed on a Missouri Democrat’s lawn, another in a string of incidents against lawmakers after their vote Sunday on a health care overhaul. Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-Mo.) had a coffin placed ...
Health Care, Barack Obama, Health, Health Insurance, Bad Craziness, Threats
Fred Barnes in January 2010: The Health Care Bill Is Dead | The Weekly Standard. The health care bill, ObamaCare, is dead with not the slightest prospect of resurrection. Brown ran to be the 41st vote for filibuster and now he is just that. Democrats have talked up clever strategies ...
Health Care, Barack Obama, Health, Health Insurance, Fred Barnes, Bogus Predictions, Pundits
To Michelle Malkin, if President Obama shows any sign of being even slightly happy about the success of his health care reform bill, it’s “gloating.” And in the comments for her thread (among dozens of comments talking about buying food, guns, and ammunition, joining militias, and going on “a war footing”), ...
Health Care, Barack Obama, Health, Health Insurance, Bad Craziness, Michelle Malkin, Timothy McVeigh
At a closed meeting yesterday, House Minority Leader John Boehner told GOP legislators to “behave like grown-ups.” Now, why would he think it was necessary to tell them that? House Minority Leader John Boehner told his conference to “behave like grown-ups” if the healthcare bill is passed by the House on ...
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The American Medical Association is now officially endorsing President Obama’s health care legislation: AMA Supports House Passage of Health System Reform. Washington, D.C. – After careful review and consideration, the American Medical Association (AMA) today announced its qualified support for the current health reform bill as a step toward providing ...
Health Care, American Medical Association, Barack Obama, Health, Health Insurance
This week, Jenny McCarthy and the anti-vaccination “movement” were definitively shut down by a special branch of the US Court of Federal claims: Court says thimerosal did not cause autism. WASHINGTON – The vaccine additive thimerosal is not to blame for autism, a special federal court ruled Friday in a ...
British medical journal The Lancet has officially retracted the study they published in 1998 that began the still-spreading anti-vaccination craziness. [Video] Britain’s General Medical Council has issued a ruling as well, calling the research done by Dr. Andrew Wakefield for his discredited study linking MMR vaccine to autism “callous, unethical, and dishonest.” ...
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Are you feeling healthy and smug because you drink nothing but bottled water? You may want to have a look at this chart, and then wipe that smug off yer face: The Facts About Bottled Water. (Hat tip: Stanley Sea.)
While I supported the Bush administration’s foreign policies for the most part, one of the biggest disagreements I had with them was their blatant bias against scientific research; and one of the best examples of that bias was their opposition to stem cell research, an opposition based entirely on irrational ...
Stem Cells, Embryonic Stem Cells, Medicine, Health, Religious Right
At Huffington Post, TV talk show host Bill Maher has a very lengthy article trying to explain his anti-vaccination opinions, but it’s more obfuscation than explanation: Bill Maher: Vaccination: A Conversation Worth Having. It’s pretty long-winded and a bit whiny, and amounts to a restatement of Maher’s previous positions, which were ...
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Wired’s Amy Wallace has an excellent piece on the rise of the idiotic and perilous anti-vaccine “movement:” An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All. Wired also identifies some of the most prominent idiots promoting this bad craziness (but somehow they missed Bill Maher): The Misinformants: Prominent ...
Vaccines, Medicine, Health, kooks, Pseudo-Science, Swine Flu, H1N1
Bill Maher utterly embarrasses himself in this clip from his “Real Time” show, with ignorant comments about vaccination (yes, Maher is an anti-vaxer) you have to hear to believe. According to Maher, vaccination is not proven to work scientifically. (Do I need to point out how completely false this is?) [Video] ScienceBlogger ...
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Somebody pinch me. I must be having a bad dream. There can’t be this many ignorant anti-vaccination parents playing chicken with the lives of their children: AP Poll: Third of parents oppose swine flu vaccine. ATLANTA – As the first wave of swine flu vaccine crosses the country, more than ...
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At James Randi’s “Amazing Meeting,” Neurologist Steve Novella gave an interesting talk on the benefits of vaccination, and the growing danger of the anti-vaccination movement. (This is an introduction to a panel discussion that hasn’t been posted yet.) [Video]
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Anti-vaccination kook Jenny McCarthy has been signed up as a “health expert” for a personalized exercise game by Ubisoft: Tom (son of Jack?) Chick gives a heads up: Ubisoft is using anti-vaccine wingnut Jenny McCarthy in its new Wii game.
Vaccines, Medicine, Health, kooks, Pseudo-Science, Jenny McCarthy, Video Games
While we’re messing around with this silly Supreme Court nomination hearing in the US, over in Saudi Arabia they’re curing cancer with camel urine. Dr. Faten Abdel-Rahman Khorshid is responsible for one of the Kingdom’s greatest national achievements in the field of science for her work which began with the ...
Here’s a very cool video promo for a cause you may not expect: [Video] The link comes from a friend of Bill Whittle’s, Dana Commandatore, with a note about the motivation of the clip: I’m the mother of a 6 year old autistic boy who has had enough of the pseudo-science quackery ...
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Here’s an excellent article exploring the disturbing rise of irrational anti-vaccination theories, now threatening public health as diseases long thought eradicated in modern societies are returning with a vengeance: A Broken Trust: Lessons from the Vaccine–Autism Wars. Until the summer of 2005, Sharon Kaufman had never paid much attention to ...
Vaccines, Medicine, Health, kooks, Pseudo-Science, Jenny McCarthy, Autism
Another disease making a big comeback, because of the anti-vaccination craziness spread by irresponsible people like Jenny McCarthy: whooping cough. Children who aren’t vaccinated against whooping cough are 23 times more likely to develop the disease than children who get all of their shots on time, a new study shows. Whooping ...
Vaccines, Medicine, Health, kooks, Pseudo-Science, Whooping Cough