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Machi4velli
SFN Regular
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 Posted - 10/16/2009 : 01:41:13
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What the hell is he thinking, haha
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/10/maher_really_is_a_moron_on_med.php
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Dave W.
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HalfMooner
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Posted - 10/16/2009 : 06:49:18 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Just goes to show that you don't need to be a critical thinker to be an atheist.
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Or that you can be a critical thinker in oddly limited ways, as Shermer is on just about every subject but Libertarianism. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 10/16/2009 : 07:10:44 [Permalink]
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Bill Maher has blinders on when it comes to a few things. He thinks all processing of food is wrong, he thinks all medications are bad, he is a board member of PETA, he thinks there is a "big pharma" and "corporate farm/food" conspiracy to make people fat and sick, and he obviously doesn't understand the concept of how vaccination works.
I think part of his problem is that he is sheltered by his own celebrity. No one can get close to him and really inform him. He is on the money with most other things, and I suspect he realizes he is on shaky ground with the food/med/vaccine thing because he doesn't aggresively push those issues. Some of his guests recently have made him step back from the crazy also.
I get the impression from Maher that he could be swayed by a good evidence based argument also.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 10/16/2009 : 07:30:47 [Permalink]
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Orac, by the way, has had a lot to say about Maher recently:And let's not miss the older stuff:(The number problem seems to be Orac's.)
In short, Maher is anti-vaccine, anti-germ-theory, anti-pharma and an HIV/AIDS denialist. |
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
5310 Posts |
Posted - 10/16/2009 : 07:40:07 [Permalink]
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| Somebody tell me why the flak about PETA. What's wrong with PETA seems to be what's wrong with ACORN. Right-wing nonsense. Can someone lead me to some information on this? |
I know the rent is in arrears
The dog has not been fed in years
It's even worse than it appears
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Dave W.
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 10/16/2009 : 09:10:19 [Permalink]
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| Thanks, Dave. Good stuff. |
I know the rent is in arrears
The dog has not been fed in years
It's even worse than it appears
But it's alright-
Jerry Garcia
Robert Hunter
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Dave W.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 10/16/2009 : 18:53:51 [Permalink]
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| Wow! Now, if we could just get Bill Maher to likewise take on Shermer's Libertarianism... |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 10/16/2009 : 19:49:09 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Wow! Now, if we could just get Bill Maher to likewise take on Shermer's Libertarianism...
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Only problem there is that Maher is pretty much a libertarian himself. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 10/17/2009 : 06:21:33 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
Originally posted by HalfMooner
Wow! Now, if we could just get Bill Maher to likewise take on Shermer's Libertarianism...
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Only problem there is that Maher is pretty much a libertarian himself.
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D'oh! |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Machi4velli
SFN Regular
USA
854 Posts |
Posted - 10/17/2009 : 11:46:20 [Permalink]
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| Dawkins award indeed... |
"Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people."
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"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge."
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podcat
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 10/17/2009 : 22:32:09 [Permalink]
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| You know, I like Bill Maher, and I think he's got a point on a lot of subjects, but his increasingly irrational stance against vaccines just drives me up the wall. I wonder if he thinks Jonas Salk's vaccine was harmful to polio patients. |
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Dave W.
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Posted - 10/17/2009 : 23:29:58 [Permalink]
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Holy cow. From Orac (yes, again), I've learned that Maher took the opportunity presented by his season finale to defend himself against the accusations that he's anti-science-based-medicine, and was taken to school this time by Chris Matthews, who had the good sense to compare Maher to Tom Cruise.
Unbelievably, Maher used the "it's not settled science" gambit, insisting that there's less evidence for the efficacy and safety of vaccines than there is for anthropogenic global warming, and further insisting that he's not as "crazy" as the people who argue against AGW or evolution. Yes, Bill, you are. When it comes to vaccines and "Western" medicine, you're every bit as nutty as our own Bill scott.
I can't even watch the clip that Orac's posted. I really liked the guy. But if he's parading his ignorance around, claiming that vaccination is giving someone "a little bit of the disease," I'm not going to give him even the itsy-bitsy amount of "support" that comes with an increased-by-one YouTube view count.
And what's he got against Jell-O? |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 10/17/2009 : 23:31:42 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by podcat
You know, I like Bill Maher, and I think he's got a point on a lot of subjects, but his increasingly irrational stance against vaccines just drives me up the wall. I wonder if he thinks Jonas Salk's vaccine was harmful to polio patients.
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Polio and the H-bomb were the twin terrors of elementary school children in the early nineteen-fifties. In classrooms, duck-and-cover drills competed for horror with films showing rows of iron lungs with kids trapped inside. Many of you have no idea how great a relief the Salk vaccine was to us all.
My teeth grate when I think of all the lurking killers to which the criminally stupid anti-vaxers are now exposing themselves, and us.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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| Edited by - HalfMooner on 10/17/2009 23:33:21 |
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Bill Maher opposes vaccines?!
