Friday, March 12, 2010

Y'know

If Red State puts up posts by nut-job conspiracy theories from Creationism to Birth Certificates we mock them.

But Huffington Post is doing the same thing constantly by encouraging people not to be vaccinated using ad hominem attacks, as opposed to actual, y'know science.

It's becoming just as embarrassing.

4 comments:

DrDick said...

I gave up on the HuffPoo long ago. It has become an unsanitary hybrid of People and the National Enquirer.

sukabi said...

not quite sure if your post is snark or not, since the piece you link to isn't using ad hominem attacks to question the validity of anything...

If the whole basis for the CDC and other agencies declaring mercury preservatives in vaccines "safe" is one study (or a couple of studies that featured the same "researcher") that was at best poorly done and has been disputed, then it looks like the "lack of science" and "conspiracy theory" sort of fall short... especially since the quy in question is currently being accused by the CDC of forging grant documents, is being sought by Emory University for making off with $2million of their research funds, and has been changing his resume over the last couple of weeks because the various universities he's claimed to work for / at have been having a bit of an issue with his claims on them.

all in the links provided at the end of the article you linked to.

pansypoo said...

heh, i never went.

guessed said...

how many discoveries in science were first vociferously denounced as quackery?