Health Care
CNN is reporting that a study purporting to connect autism to vaccinations was an "elaborate fraud":
The now-discredited paper panicked many parents and led to a sharp drop in the number of children getting the vaccine that prevents measles, mumps and rubella. Vaccination rates dropped sharply in Britain after its publication, falling as low as 80 percent by 2004. Measles cases have gone up sharply in the ensuing years.
I wonder what Jim Carrey and the rest of the anti-vaccination fanatics think about this revelation?
Rumor has it that the study's author, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, is up for a job at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit.
This is just as big of a hoax as global warming and John Edward's court case (which he won a $6.5 million dollar verdict -wonder how much the plaintiff actually received) involving a baby born with cerebal palsy. Edwards claimed that the baby would not have been born with cerebal palsy if the doctor had performed immediately performed a C-section.
As a result of lawsuits like Edward's and others, four times as many c-sections are performed than 30 years ago. Ironically there has been no change in the rate of babies born with cerebal palsy. Furthermore, studies have shown that babies born with cerebal palsy have some type of fetal brain injury long before birth. C-Sections can be extremely dangerous to women. But of course so can extra-marital affairs by husbands whose wives are dying from cancer.
There are two Americas: Those who lie and cheat on their spouses who are dying from cancer and those who don't.
"There are two Americas: Those who lie and cheat on their spouses who are dying from cancer and those who don't."
So, I guess that puts you in the odd position of having to denounce the America of Newt "Contract with/on America" Gingrich?
"So, I guess that puts you in the odd position of having to denounce the America of Newt "Contract with/on America" Gingrich?"
No, it doesn't.