If celebrity antivaccinationist Jenny McCarthy were ever to read Respectful Insolenceâ¢...

...Orac might be in trouble:

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I wonder if I should hire a guard.

Actually, I think reading Respectful Insolence⢠might do Jenny McCarthy some good, especially this post (or maybe this post, too). Unfortunately, she's too deluded and arrogant to realize how scientifically ignorant she is; so it would probably just be a waste.

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I wonder if it would be survivable if you got extremely drunk. Don't the affected systems favor ethanol over ethylene glycol, or am I seriously misremembering something?

Ranson, I seem to recall hearing at one point that they use an ethanol IV to treat accidental methanol ingestion for precisely that reason. Don't have a clue about ethylene glycol, though.

Tiny Jim Carrey is so goddamn creepy.

Heh. I'm glad you like it Orac! I forgot to mention it was me this morning when I sent it.

You and about ten other people. ;-)

Heheheheheheh.

You used 'Jenny McCarthy' and 'read' in the same sentence.

{/Beavis}

Aah anti vaxxers, gotta love em. Injecting is evil, and toxins ruin our kids! Now injecting them with OTHER toxins like chelating agents, that'll totally work.

I mean, it's sound reasoning.

Orac said:

You and about ten other people. ;-)

Yes, but I was the first to claim credit. Veeeerrry important in the whole news cycle scheme of things. Harder to refute if you get your stuff out first.

Couldn't the artist have drawn Jim's laptop as a Dell?

By Hey Zeus is my… (not verified) on 20 Jun 2008 #permalink

IIRC, ethylene glycol isn't poisonous per se, but its metabolites are. The idea behind treating someone who has ingested it with ethanol is that ethanol uses up alcohol dehydrogenase, which is then unavailable to convert ethylene glycol into glycoaldehyde, which short circuits the process of forming more toxic stuff.

By Ktesibios (not verified) on 20 Jun 2008 #permalink

If Jenny McCarthy were ever to read . . .
This is the woman who claimed that her son was her laboratory, and that By Gum, she Made him and she can Un-Make him!
So . . Jenny... performing unlicensed medical experiments . . . Right... and a vaccine is unsafe. Please go back to eating boogers.

Y'know, Orac, there are idiots out there who really can't tell the difference between one substance and another just because their names are similar. And that would include ethanol and methanol.

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By Quantum Jenny (not verified) on 22 Jun 2008 #permalink

I would be in great fear too. Perhaps you could acquire the services of the cosmetic surgeon who made the Rejuvenique spokesperson go from really good looking to needing to hide behind that 30 situps a second on your face mask.

Or maybe not. Maybe it's better just to leave the lab coat buttoned and not expose that Orac symbol on your chest.