Respectful Insolence
Archives for March 9, 2009
In which Orac sits back and lets someone else take on Jenny McCarthy’s “autism charity” for a change…
Posted by Orac on March 9, 2009
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Regular readers of this blog know pretty much what I think of Jenny McCarthy. In brief, she’s an opportunistic, scientifically ignorant but media-savvy twit whose hubris leads her to believe that her Google University education, coupled with her personal anecdotal experience, render her proclamations that vaccines cause autism and that “biomedical” quackery can cure it…
When burning woo produces deceptive testimonials
Posted by Orac on March 9, 2009 PZ’s muscling in on my territory. Apparently, ruling the Darwinian, creationist-destroying atheist cephalopod blogging world isn’t enough, and he has to start moving in on medicine. No problem, given that this time around he brought some rather interesting woo to my attention, suggesting it as perhaps a suitable topic for Your Friday Dose of Woo…