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realisticphish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-07-09 11:14 PM
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Things Vaccines Have Caused
-Autism, of course
-Swine Flu
-Nausea
-Insanity
-Erectile dysfunction
-Fertility
-Infertility
-Religious Fundamentalism
-Jimmy Fallon
-The cancelation of "Firefly"
-Paris Hilton
-The color beige

Anything else?
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onager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 01:33 AM
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1. Rainbow-farting ponies
Check out Skepchick.org, who are all over the autism/vaccine scare. They are writing to America's Woo-Enabler-In-Charge, Oprah, to try and drum a few facts into her thick skull.

They don't expect much. At least not, as one poster pointed out, until some kids die from not being vaccinated. At which time Oprah will feature the weeping Moms on her show, asking why they ever listened to Dr. Jenny McCarthy on the subject.

Rebecca Watson of Skepchick wrote Oprah once before, on a subject dear to all of our shriveled little hearts in here. She never got an answer:

An open letter to Oprah Winfrey.
February 16th, 2007

Dear Oprah,

...Recently, you’ve used your stage to promote the work of self-professed psychics John Edward and Allison DuBois, as well as Dean Radin, who believes that we can physically alter reality simply by wishing hard enough...

John Edward alone could out-lie James Frey with a gallon of sodium pentathal coursing through his veins and a magical lie-detecting electro-shock machine hooked up to his genitals.

Allison Dubois, inspiration for the television show Medium, claims to have helped police solve a number of murder mysteries. Well that’s odd, because she has yet to provide a shred of proof for this claim. I’m going to write to NBC and tell them I can divine the future by reading the swirls in caramel fudge sundaes. Think they’ll give me my own TV show, too?

Oprah, you promoted a “documentary” that claims to show proof that you can literally alter reality by wishing. We’re not talking about the power of positive thinking; we’re talking about the ability to create a pony that farts rainbows by merely thinking about it...


http://skepchick.org/blog/?p=407
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mr blur Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 02:48 AM
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4. Wonder why Oprah didn't reply -
Funny, that.

Good letter
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dropkickpa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 01:10 PM
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11. I'm dying here
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realisticphish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 02:27 PM
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12. I'm an SGU listener
Rebecca is awesome :D
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mr blur Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 02:42 AM
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2. - Stinking rich Big Pharma executives,
Edited on Fri May-08-09 02:49 AM by mr blur
(although we poor shills seem to be missing out on the wealth)

- Dumb postings on DU.
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JackRiddler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-25-09 05:29 PM
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17. Well, that's actually true.
Presumably you're not a Big Pharma executive making a bad salary?

Nevertheless you could sum it up:

- practical eradication of a lot of once-deadly diseases, saving millions of lives
- a far, far smaller number of deaths due to complications (but there's no need to sneeze at them)
- an incentive to vaccinate beyond what may be necessary, and to complicate the debate with PR.

Single-payer universal would serve to change the last item.

It's like a lot of the advantages that modern civilization really does confer. There are trade-offs, but we decide to accept the price and in this case, as a vaccinated person who never got a lot of junk I wouldn't have liked, I agree.
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 02:44 AM
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3. Spontaneous combustion?
A lot of profits for Big Pharma? No, really - if you don't die of whooping cough or diphtheria at the age of 2, you are more likely to be a big consumer of blood pressure medicines and anti-arthritis pills at the age of 92. Behold their evil plot!
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moggie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 05:16 AM
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5. Good point!
Vaccines cause old people. And, therefore, Florida.
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varkam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-11-09 08:31 AM
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15. I always suspected there was something nefarious about Florida. Now I know.
:evilgrin:
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 10:10 AM
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6. Amnesia.
Edited on Fri May-08-09 10:11 AM by TZ
Because all the anti-vaxx fuckwads have forgotten how horrible infectious diseases like small pox, polio, measles, pertussis etc really are.
Ironic isn't it. How many of these "vaccines are toxic" woos would probably be dead or disfigured without them
.
Edit: I've heard this theory before that vaccines actually are such a great technology that they've undermined themselves by making life so much better people take them for granted.
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GoneOffShore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 10:54 AM
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7. Here's a link that shows off just how bad things are
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2009/05/homeopathy_kills_a_child.php


I'm finding that I'm hanging out at Science Blogs more and more, especially as GD and GDP seem to be sinking more and more into irrelevancy and "teh stupid".

OT but Interesting stuff here. http://metamagician3000.blogspot.com/2009/05/in-which-russell-encounters-eaglefish.html
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 12:02 PM
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9. What our friend Dr. Strange is REALLY a homeopathic practitioner?
I knew that "math professor" was really just a cover...


" In other words, homeopathy is nothing more than sympathetic magic suitable for use by Doctor Strange...."
:hide:
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 12:50 PM
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10. In my defense, that wasn't in the original script.
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semillama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 11:12 AM
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8. Do you dare descend into the darkest pits of woo on autism????
This isn't dedicated solely to Vaccines cause autism, more like science causes autism.

http://www.mothering.com/discussions/showthread.php?t=1077468

Every bit of horrifying stupid woo you've ever heard about autism is present on the two pages of this thread, and a few I had never heard of before - Toothpaste and Electromagnetic Fields!

Also, you will learn that mercury poisoning and nutritional deficiencies can be inherited!
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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 04:01 PM
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13. 9/11
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realisticphish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 05:53 PM
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14. wow
I can't believe I missed that one :D
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Chowlie Donating Member (47 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-25-09 09:59 AM
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16. Noted medical expert Jim Carrey is against them.
That's good enough for me! ;)
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MrMonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 08:52 PM
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18. What haven't they caused?
http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20090325.html

I've been looking for an opportunity to post this.
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semillama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-03-09 11:44 AM
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19. Excellent! n/t
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