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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 ...
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: ...
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?) ...
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 ...
Vaccines, Medicine, Health, kooks, Pseudo-Science, Swine Flu, H1N1
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]
Vaccines, Medicine, Health, kooks, Pseudo-Science, Jenny McCarthy, Steve Novella, James Randi
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
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 ...
Vaccines, Medicine, Health, kooks, Pseudo-Science, Jenny McCarthy, Autism, babes
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 ...
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 ...
Vaccines, Medicine, Health, kooks, Pseudo-Science, Whooping Cough
In today’s Chicago Tribune, an exposé of a Chicago doctor who peddles anti-vaccination insanity to patients—along with quack remedies, including a claim that Vitamin D cures autism: Autism doctor: Troubling record trails doctor treating autism. Dr. Mayer Eisenstein comes across as a grandfatherly physician, a pat-on-the-knee practitioner who delivers ...
Vaccines, Medicine, Health, kooks, Pseudo-Science, Chicago, Autism
The anti-vaccination insanity is starting to take a fatal toll across the pond as well: Measles outbreak ‘worst in years’. Health chiefs in Wales are dealing with a “massive” measles outbreak, with numbers already four times the highest figure recorded over the past 13 years. Four nursery school children ...
Shirley Wu says it all in this open letter to Oprah, about her disastrous decision to give a talk show to anti-vaccination kook Jenny McCarthy: Dear Oprah, I have to confess, I have never watched more than a few minutes of your show. Probably not the best way to ...
Vaccines, Medicine, Health, kooks, Pseudo-Science, Jenny McCarthy, Oprah Winfrey
Discover Magazine has an excellent article by Chris Mooney on the anti-vaccination insanity that crosses political boundaries, and is now becoming a major risk to public health: Why Does the Vaccine/Autism Controversy Live On? Vaccines do not cause autism. That was the ruling in each of three critical test ...
Vaccines, Medicine, Health, kooks, Pseudo-Science, Science, Anti-Science
The Wall Street Journal has an article about a report from the Centers for Disease Control warning about new outbreaks of diseases thought to be eradicated—due to parents who are buying into the anti-vaccination craziness promoted by people like Jenny McCarthy: Fear of Vaccines Spurs Outbreaks, Study Says. Parental ...
Vaccines, Medicine, Health, kooks, Pseudo-Science, Science, Anti-Science
Writing about the latest anti-vaccination insanity published at Huffington Post, Phil Plait says: I am embarrassed I ever wrote anything for HuffPo, which is now a cesspool of misleading misinformation. I could have told you that long ago, Phil. But we all have our blind spots, I guess. ...
Vaccines, Medicine, Health, kooks, Pseudo-Science, Huffington Post, Science
Apparently, physicians and medical scientists are just as disgusted with the Huffington Post as your average “right wing” blogger. Who knew? Jim Carrey, husband of anti-vaccination kook Jenny McCarthy, has written a screed for Arianna advocating the latest Dark Ages fantasy of the left and the right: that vaccinations cause ...
Vaccines, Medicine, Health, kooks, Pseudo-Science, Jim Carrey, Huffington Post, Science
Neocons are more intelligent than most conservatives but much more evil.
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 ...
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
It’s time for the James Randi Foundation’s “Pigasus” awards for 2008, and lo and behold — some of our favorite kooks and cranks are “honored,” including anti-vaccination airhead Jenny McCarthy and Ben Stein’s horrible creationist propaganda film “Expelled.” [Video]
James Randi, Skepticism, Ben Stein, Jenny McCarthy, kooks, quacks, Creationism, Vaccines, Paranormal
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
California, Vaccines, Medicine, Health, kooks, Pseudo-Science