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Jenny McCarthy is still a moron
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So Jenny McCarthy and her boytoy are going to be on Larry King tonight, spewing their stupid anti-vaccine horse shit, presumably unchallenged by silly things like facts or science or logic.
I wanted to just post this in Druhim's old thread about the subject but he had to go and get it locked. For those of you unfamiliar with the subject, here's a Wikipedia summary that I didn't fact check.
I wanted to just post this in Druhim's old thread about the subject but he had to go and get it locked. For those of you unfamiliar with the subject, here's a Wikipedia summary that I didn't fact check.
Anybody else gonna tune in for this? I figure it'll be good for a few bitter laughs, if nothing else.In May 2007, McCarthy announced that her son was diagnosed with autism in 2005. The disorder of McCarthy's son began with seizures and his improvement occurred after the seizures were treated; these symptoms are more consistent with Landau-Kleffner syndrome, which often is misdiagnosed as autism. McCarthy served as a spokesperson for Talk About Curing Autism (TACA) from June 2007 until October 2008. She participated in fundraisers, online chats, and other activities for the non-profit organization to help families affected by autism spectrum disorders. Her first fundraiser for TACA, Ante Up for Autism, was held on October 20, 2007, in Irvine, California. Before claiming that her son's supposed autism was caused by vaccination, McCarthy wrote that he was a "crystal child" and she an "indigo mom".
McCarthy's book on the subject, Louder than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism was published September 17, 2007. She has stated both in her book and during her appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show that her husband was unable to deal with their son's autism, which led to their divorce. She added that her relationship with Jim Carrey has made it easier on her and that finding someone who loves her and her son is great. McCarthy also told Oprah Winfrey that her son was developing normally until he received his measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine (at 15 months of age) and claimed that they were the cause. McCarthy's claims on television that vaccines cause autism, despite being unsupported by the medical evidence, have contributed to parental concerns about a possible link; parental concerns have led to decreased immunization rates and increased incidence of measles, a highly contagious and sometimes deadly disease. McCarthy has stated at many talk shows and rallies that chelation therapy helped her son recover from autism; the underlying rationale for chelation, which is that mercury in vaccines causes autism, has been roundly rejected by scientific studies, with the National Institute of Mental Health concluding that autistic children are unlikely to receive any benefit to balance the risks of cognitive and emotional problems posed by the chelating agents used in the treatment.
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I think this tells us that nobody should visit Germany.
like, I am in favor of vaccines, but that's because I have read books and heard both sides of the story ad nauseam and blahblahblah
a lot of the time around these forums I basically get the idea that everyone holds these opinions only because everyone else does, and just because they are generally enlightened and educated opinions doesn't entirely excuse that
Darwin would be so proud
I mean, do you really want to be in such close proximity to Shibby? I think not.
If they're enlightened and educated then aren't they innately well thought out and not blindly accepted
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Most pseudoscientific garbage like astrology is mostly harmless, but as far as I'm concerned, the anti-vaccination movement has blood on its hands.
The opinions are enlightened and educated
people who blindly subscribe to said opinions are not themselves enlightened and educated, is what he's saying
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there's like, gotta be a name for it
Arrogant College Freshman Syndrome
ACFS
manifests in young college freshmen where they suddenly think they are smarter and more enlightened than everyone around them because their professor is introducing them to new ideas
it's mindblowing
they're worn in support of palestine, maaaaaaaan
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well it's more that I agree with the opinion, I guess
I'm not trying to be all "it's the fucking illuminati" here but I believe in the concept of healthy distrust
not of "the government" or anything retarded like that, and I'm not saying you need to exhaustively research every topic you want to have an opinion on
also I don't even own a keffiyeh so I don't know when that was
also cloudman is a dumb stoner
see thank you
this is what I meant
you're a good dude
I'd like you to know that I agree with this sentiment I was just prodding you with semantics to get you clarify it in better terms
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then you would be inoculated against other, larger spiders
genius!
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Apparently? You're so lazy you can decide for certain that your laziness is the reason for not going, like maybe you also have a cake in the oven or something but man decisions
So that's how I contracted the brain spiders.
okay well if you're not just trying to get me riled up then I will get a little more specific
I am saying that the original people who form these opinions, on these boards and elsewhere, are enlightened and educated. They have done research, they have a well-thought out and moderated opinion, they can discourse at length on the topic and it's basically clear that they're super-bright and know what they're talking about.
Then people come along and agree with them and all, but when actually pressed they basically just parrot back bits and pieces of the original opinion without actually making a clear and effective argument, so it becomes obvious that instead of knowing the facts themselves and without admitting "yeah, ok, I believe this but am not the best person to argue the point" they just get more and more antagonistic and inflammatory.
This is something that bugs me.
no but it's more than that
i know lots of hipsters
my girlfriend's in university, some of her friends are hipsters
and yeah, hipsters are annoying
but there's this sort of madness that afflicts some people when they start in college
they turn into mouthpieces for their professors and espouse with absolute conviction viewpoints and ideas they might've been taught last week
after that first year, it seems to taper off and temper itself
but i don't know maybe it's the intoxication of new knowledge and an opening of one's worldview or whatever
but fuck if it ain't annoying and it turns otherwise okay people into arrogant shits
I guess man
it's tough to make decisions or finish thi
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there are some opinions that I don't share that I can see the merits of
like a lot of fiscal issues or political ideologies, I don't endorse them but yeah, I can see where you're coming from
I'm just trying to highlight the difference between "I wonder if this way of doing things is the best it could possibly be" and "maybe we live on the inside of the planet Earth and no one has ever told us because they don't want us to find out"
Being a hipster should be a misdemeanor offense.
I really want King to bring some sort of hard scientific questioning to her and Carrey, but I am not hopeful
your flawed plan is crumbling into tiny, flawed pieces
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