Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins) is spreading anti-vax woo now too

[salvorhardin]

"I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us thru fear,” he writes. “This is not judgment; it is a personal decision based on research, intuition, conversations with my doctor and my 'family.' If the virus comes to take me Home, that is between me and the Lord." <snip>

"I have friends that have gotten the swine flu. All of them told me they felt very, very sick, and that it was awful,” he posts. “So I'm not in any way suggesting that the H1N1 virus is not real. I would suggest however, that it is possible the virus is not a naturally occurring virus. I have read reports from people who say (as doctors) that there is evidence to suggest this virus was created by man; to call it Swine Flu is then a misnomer, as it really is Swine Flu plus some other stuff stitched together. These doctors said such genetic mutation was impossible in nature." </snip>

"If you follow some of the links I have been supplying as of late, you'll notice many are focused on the propaganda build up to our day of reckoning with the Swine Flu virus,” he says. “I say 'propaganda' because, in my heart, there is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic. Our American President Obama has declared a national emergency about this virus, which he in his own words said was, at this point, a preventative measure. So why declare an emergency if there isn't one?"
http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/generalarticlesynopsfullart.aspx?csid2=844&fid1=42183

[laconicsax]

1. ...going through the checklist...

Paranoia: check
Gut over brain: check
Religious fatalism: check
Conspiracy theory: check
Ignorance of evolution: check
Anonymous 2nd hand accounts: check

He's got everything except crystal healing and homeopathy.

[salvorhardin]

8. I know!

He's like a poster child for magical thinking!

[charlie]

2. He dated Courtney Love

Not a man of sound judgment.

[realisticphish]

3. Despite all his rage he is still just a

gullible conspiracy theorist

[Heddi]

4. when did he get all Godly?

I suppose that when the "I Hate God And The World" Schitck train has left the building, and your last peak was somewhere around 1994, one needs to find some new angle to keep your almost-forgotten name in the news (somewhat) and keep the $$ rolling in for one more day....

[salvorhardin]

7. I was wondering that too

I think you're right. Smashing Pumpkins cashed in on the popularization of the Seattle grunge scene in the 1990s and never really went anywhere. Being all contrarian and godly gets his name back into the spotlight. Although I think he sincerely believes the BS.

[mr blur]

5. Rock stars - is there anything they don't know? (nt)

[WhollyHeretic]

6. "If the virus comes to take me Home, that is between me and the Lord."

How about the people you then infect? Fuckwit

"in my heart, there is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic"

I guess you are going to make bad decisions when you try and make those decisions using a pump instead of a brain. I can't stand the idiots that can't grasp the idea that we are trying to prevent a grand pandemic. If it becomes a grand pandemic then we are too late.

[salvorhardin]

9. Oh, that's god's will too

You wouldn't want to thwart the will of god would you? </sarcasm>

[beam me up scottie]

12. "How about the people you then infect?"

Let them eat Turmeric.

[WhollyHeretic]

13. That makes sense. People have been using Turmeric for thousands of years.

We know how much smarter people were two thousand years ago.

[beam me up scottie]

14. And they lived such long healthy lives! Gimme teh good ole daiz!

sigh...

[SemiCharmedQuark]

19. Does he know what a pandemic is?

Does he think a pandemic means corpses littering the streets and a guy going house to house ringing a bell and saying bring out your dead?

[TZ]

10. What incompetent boobs/"doctors" is this guy talking to?

The origin of H1N1 is soooo close to something that epidemiologists have been predicting for years its not even funny! Anyone who can get through college without understanding the basic physiology involved in creating this viri is a TOTAL MORON!

[beam me up scottie]

11. Jenny McCarthy's.

oops! Sorry, wrong vaccine.:blush:

[TZ]

15. Hey BMUS.

Been awhile...how you doing?:hi:

[beam me up scottie]

16. Well, hey there yourself!

Trying to remain positive down here, but it's not easy.

Glad to see you're still fighting the good fight, how are you doing? :hi:

[TZ]

17. Meh. Not around here as much as I used to be.

Too much crapola. Healths okay. My family is driving me nuts and so is my job..pretty much par the course...

[beam me up scottie]

18. Sometimes consistency can be comforting (even if annoying).

Living in limbo drives me crazy - I worry 24/7. DU is a good distraction but the woo pusher threads can be hazardous to MY mental health.

[Orrex]

25. Zing!

Laughed my ass off at that.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

21. I'm guessing he obtained his medical knowledge from good ol' Google U.

via Infowars, Mercola, and Global Research.

[salvorhardin]

23. Or Jay Gordon like Brent Spiner n/t

[SemiCharmedQuark]

20. So much bullshit crammed into so few sentences.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

22. ROFL! OMG, the picture that goes with that article is classic.

<-------------Science Ninja!

[NMMNG]

24. Oy

One of those Gawdly antivaxers. :puke:

[enki23]

26. makes me feel better for never liking smashing pumpkins.

.

[Meshuga]

27. I guess we should all listen to Dr. Corgan, MD

Wait a second... Isn't he the boy from Small Wonder?