Comments on: Wired looks at anti-vax nonsense

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:25:52 +0000

OK, everybody, settle down. Sometimes Wired articles are visible right away, sometimes not. We just need to stay calm.

By: Spanish Inquisitor

Spanish Inquisitor — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:17:12 +0000

Ha! I stand corrected. Damn you. 😉

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:15:17 +0000

Oh, and Orac, are you going to write about the recent article in The Atlantic????? Please?

By: Spanish Inquisitor

Spanish Inquisitor — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:14:52 +0000

I don’t think WIRED has links to the current issue. You usually have to wait till it’s been on the stands awhile. Every time I’ve read something in the current issue, and want to share it, I realize I have to scan and email it if I need to do it right away. I guess they worry about newsstand sales being diluted.

Anyway, I read most of the article last night. Hopefully I’ll finish it tonight. It was pretty good so far. The interesting point is that it’s not a religious based crapola. There tends to be some highly educated people that are anti-vax, and they aren’t motivated by supernatural belief systems. It’s an interesting subset of the pseudo-science mindset.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:12:27 +0000

Orac, as far as I could tell at the time, the on line link was not functioning. Thus I simply included a link to a page that would eventually lead to it. I have since added the more specific link. This appears to be it:

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_waronscience

Thanks for asking so politely, though.

By: katydid13

katydid13 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:09:23 +0000

I think it’s just plain weird that vaccine’s success is almost its own enemy. Besides that fact that my parents are rational people who believe in science, they had me vaccinated because they remember kids in iron lungs and being stuck inside because of fear of polio. Gen X parents have pretty much never seen anyone get sick from diseases vaccines prevent. Chicken pox is the only one familar to us, it’s probably not the most dramic example of why vaccines are good. Most of us who had chicken pox just itched and got to watch extra tv.

By: Orac

Orac — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:01:14 +0000

Don't you think you should actually--oh, you know--maybe link to the article?

By: AnonymousCoward

AnonymousCoward — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:21:06 +0000

Actor Jim Carrey calls him a profiteer and distills the doctorâ??s attitude toward childhood vaccination down to this chilling mantra: â??Grab â??em and stab â??em.â? Recently, Carrey and his girlfriend, Jenny McCarthy, went on CNNâ??s Larry King Live and singled out Offitâ??s vaccine, RotaTeq, as one of many unnecessary vaccines, all administered, they said, for just one reason: â??Greed.â?

Abominable cretins.

By: NewEnglandBob

NewEnglandBob — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:17:03 +0000

“people say…”

…is a euphemism for…

“I don’t like this so what I will say next is a guaranteed lie”.