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By: ginandtacos.com » Blog Archive » PURITY OF ESSENCE

ginandtacos.com » Blog Archive » PURITY OF ESSENCE — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:02:45 +0000

[...] eyebrows. Whether barely sentient celebrities are on daytime TV rallying barely sentient housewives against autism-causing vaccines or late night hosts are dishing out Common Sense Wisdom about how vaccines are a government plot to [...]

By: nedlum

nedlum — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:57:49 +0000

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.

By: Trebuchet

Trebuchet — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:27:45 +0000

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.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:20:10 +0000

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.

By: Keith

Keith — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:26:18 +0000

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.

By: sophia8

sophia8 — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:51:49 +0000

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.

By: Zyggy

Zyggy — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:07:55 +0000

BTW great quote:

“…Plait is a voice of reason amidst the nonsense of non-science.”

By: Zyggy

Zyggy — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:05:38 +0000

Jenny McCarthy is the anti-…

….ALL HAIL THE HYPNOTOAD!

By: MadScientist

MadScientist — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:19:07 +0000

[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.

By: Rob T.

Rob T. — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:04:11 +0000

Hmmm… There’s also not a single cephalopod on that list…!

By: bigjohn756

bigjohn756 — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:51:19 +0000

Funny.

I’ll bet Ebola does prevent wrinkles. Sufferers of Ebola don’t live long enough to get wrinkles.