TagsTagsAt 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 ...
Vaccines, Medicine, Health, kooks, Pseudo-Science, Swine Flu, H1N1, Bill Maher, Orac
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 ...
Vaccines, Medicine, Health, kooks, Pseudo-Science, Swine Flu, H1N1, Bill Maher
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 ...
Vaccines, Medicine, Health, kooks, Pseudo-Science, Swine Flu, H1N1
Just when you think the weirdness might be slowing down a little, Fox News cites one of the most whacked out ravers at Alex Jones’ infowars.com, a far left nutjob with a history of antisemitic writings and conspiracy theories, as a reputable authority on swine flu. Foreign governments, too, are ...
Swine Flu, Extremism, Conspiracy Theories, Alex Jones, Fox News, 9/11 Conspiracies, Infowars.com
At the New York Times, Carl Zimmer has a fascinating — and frightening — article on the evolution of the swine flu virus, and the efforts of virologists to unlock its secrets: The 10 Genes of a Human Flu Virus, Furiously Evolving. The current outbreak shows how complex and mysterious ...
Last weekend in a post about swine flu, I remarked that the appearance of this virus is a perfect example of rapid evolution in action. Amazingly, this triggered a couple of emails from people denying that viruses evolve, and one comment from a reader who said I was “becoming an ...
A sampling of comments from Fox News rising star Glenn Beck’s official 912 Project website, from the thread titled, “Swine Flu?” There are currently 369 comments in the thread, almost all of them raving about conspiracies. [...]IF ONE PERSON IN MY FAMILY DIES FROM THIS FLU I WILL HOLD OUR GOVERMENT ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Conspiracy Theories, Swine Flu
According to the White House, the Department of Health and Human Services is going to issue a “public health emergency” about the outbreak of swine flu...
Here comes the next wave of bad craziness, promoted as always by one of the worst raving nutjobs in America, Alex Jones (friend of Fox News contributor Judge Andrew Napoitano): the swine flu conspiracy theory. Medical Director: Swine Flu Was “Cultured In A Laboratory”. UPDATE at 4/25/09 6:31:34 pm: Note: there is nothing ...