Thursday July 17, 2008
Vaccinate the kids
Apparently the anti-vaccination celebrity crowd has a celebrity opponent: Amanda Peet.And it's high damn time. This nonsense about vaccines causing autism is getting out of hand. Studies find that the link all these anti-vaccination celebrities and fear-mongering parents on television claim exists between vaccines and autism is bogus.
More importantly, who the hell are you kidding? Are you going to believe a bunch of Hollywood celebrities -- the same Hollywood that produced Tom Cruise jumping up and down on Oprah's couch and all the other Scientologists who claim several psychiatric treatments for severe psychological problems don't work -- and a few parents on the TV claiming that a vaccine causes autism or doctors and researchers who study autism?
Autism, if I remember, is also something of a spectrum disorder, so you probably know some very mildly autistic people (I do not stand by this as absolute fact -- this is from conversations with a friend with an autistic brother, who [my friend] is very involved in the North Carolina autism foundation).
And here's the bottom line: would you rather have an autistic child or a dead child?
Posted by pdmccaul [Random News] ( July 17, 2008 05:16 PM ) Permalink | Comments[2]
John McCain is aware of the Internets
It's been well-established that John McCain isn't exactly computer literate.But how can someone in the media defend this as a non-issue?
Seriously, if Barack Obama had said this, I swear, the national dialogue would be filled with talking points like:
- "He doesn't know what the Internet is? His buddy Al Gore invented it, did he forget to tell Obama about what it is?"
- "How can Barack Obama connect with your average citizen if he doesn't use Google?"
- "Is Barack Obama too elitist for the Internet?"
Posted by pdmccaul [Op-Ed] ( July 17, 2008 07:51 AM ) Permalink | Comments[0]