What’s this? A rational, coherent, readable and even funny article that’s pro-vaccination in Time magazine which earlier this year gave Jenny McCarthy pretty much a free pass with her dangerous antivax nonsense?
Well, they do sometimes show brilliant bursts of good taste.
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September 19th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
Funny.
I’ll bet Ebola does prevent wrinkles. Sufferers of Ebola don’t live long enough to get wrinkles.
September 19th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Hmmm… There’s also not a single cephalopod on that list…!
September 19th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
[OT] Speaking of about time … the Planck observatory is up and running (well, all set for scientific work that is). I hope everything’s going well with Herschel.
September 19th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Jenny McCarthy is the anti-…
….ALL HAIL THE HYPNOTOAD!
September 19th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
BTW great quote:
“…Plait is a voice of reason amidst the nonsense of non-science.”
September 20th, 2009 at 4:51 am
Feder really sees the good side of life-threatening diseases. I bet she believes Ebola cures wrinkles. Every time I read some closed-mind anti-vaxxer spewing out this “but getting these diseases are GOOD for children!” crap I wish that my grandmother was still alive, so that I could record her talking about how she watched two of her children die from these lovely infections.
It’s too late for me, but could I suggest that those of you who have elderly relatives who can remember what it was like pre-vaccination, get them on record talking about it, while they’re still around? It could be the best education method for wavering parents.
September 20th, 2009 at 8:26 am
I’m glad Mr. Stein did the right thing and had his child vaccinated. However, he made the mistake of marrying a complete and total freakin’ moron who apparently will believe anyone anything tells her.
September 20th, 2009 at 11:20 am
Strange article..
“I believe in evolution not because I’ve read Darwin but because everyone I know thinks it’s true. When presented with doubts, I don’t search for detailed information from my side. I go with the consensus of mainstream media, academia and the government. Not because they’re always right but because they’re right far more often than not, and I have a TiVo to watch.”
*shrug* At least he got his kid vaccinated.
September 20th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
I had this figured for a Joel Stein piece before I even looked at it. If you’re not familiar, he’s first and foremost a humorist so you have to take pretty much everything he writes with a grain of salt. He had a similar article a couple of months ago about a disagreement with his wife over whether to have the kid circumcised. He was against it. He lost.
September 21st, 2009 at 1:57 pm
This was the back-page essay in the same issue as the puff-piece on Glen Beck. I found myself reading it and wishing they’d gotten Joel Stein to do the cover instead. It might have been a bit more cutting then what we got instead.
October 18th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
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