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Vaccines, Medicine, Health, kooks, Pseudo-Science, London, Reddit
Thanks in part to the kooks on both the right and the left who are promoting anti-vaccination insanity (people like Jenny McCarthy and publications like World Net Daily), diseases long thought eradicated are making a big comeback in London. London is suffering a startling rise in diseases associated with Victorian ...
The anti-vaccine kooks are getting another boost of free publicity tonight on the Larry King show, featuring Jenny McCarthy—who is just fine with the return of polio if it helps her sell some more books. Disgusting, and irresponsible beyond belief. Shame on CNN and Larry King for promoting this destructive, ...
Vaccines, Medicine, Health, kooks, Pseudo-Science, Jenny McCarthy
Dr. Paul Offit, MD, author of the excellent book Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure, is interviewed on the Brain Science Podcast, debunking the hysteria being spread about vaccines. [Audio] (Hat tip: Paolo.)
Tonight’s angry, belligerent email is regarding our recent posts about the anti-vaccination insanity being promoted by the likes of Jenny McCarthy, from a reader in New York, titled “a love note of sorts.” But there’s really not much love in this one. Before you crap on people for being suspicious of ...
Vaccines, Medicine, Health, kooks, Pseudo-Science, Jenny McCarthy, Hate Mail, Email
Anti-vaccination kook Jenny McCarthy is interviewed today in TIME Magazine, and the former Playboy model/MTV airhead says if polio returns in a new pandemic because of anti-vaccination propaganda, she’s just fine with that. Your collaborator recommends that parents accept only the haemophilus influenzae type B (HIB) and tetanus vaccine for ...
Vaccines, Medicine, Health, kooks, Pseudo-Science, Jenny McCarthy
Anti-vaccination fever caused an LGF reader in Irvine, California to email the following mash note, titled “how much we think we know:” Charles, How do you know there’s no connection between vaccines and autism?? AS far as I know there’s no “official” link between eating deep colored vegetables and getting ...
California, Vaccines, Medicine, Health, kooks, Pseudo-Science, Email, Hate Mail
If you had any doubt that bad craziness is on the rise in America, here’s an LA Times report on the increasing number of California parents who refuse to let their children be vaccinated, because of pseudo-scientific fear-mongering by fringe groups. A rising number of California parents are choosing to ...
California, Vaccines, Medicine, Health, kooks, Pseudo-Science
Several people have emailed this article to me today, and it’s been posted in our spinoff links twice already: Rise of sea levels is ‘the greatest lie ever told’. The Telegraph’s Christopher Booker cites a Swedish “physicist,” Nils-Axel Mörner, who claims that every scientist and climate expert in the world is ...
Climate Change, Global Warming, AGW, kooks, Pseudo-Science, Environment, Science
The latest weird science promoted by Scientology in their crusade against psychiatry: Psychiatry causes terrorism. On Two scientology chat shows prominent members of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (a Scientology front group whose overwrought website dedicated to exposing psychiatry as an “Industry of Death” can be seen here) calmly ...
Counterknowledge, Scientology, Terrorism, Psychiatry, Pseudo-Science
The James Randi Educational Foundation has a standing offer of a million dollars to anyone who can prove that they are able to dowse—the woo-woo practice of detecting hidden objects like water, pipes, wires, etc., with the aid of metal or wooden rods. Here’s Randi’s classic response to a dowser ...
We’ve had several posts about the creationist fanatics in Texas who are trying to push creationism/intelligent design/whatever into public school biology classes, but biology isn’t the only field they’re attacking. Earth and Space Science (ESS) courses are now a target as well, because they deal with scientific concepts like radiometric ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Texas, Geology, ESS, Pseudo-Science