Comments on: The man who wasn’t there

By: Julian Frost

Julian Frost — Fri, 14 May 2010 13:37:34 +0000

Sorry, my error. It’s the Federal Court of Appeals that turned down the Appeal.

By: Julian Frost

Julian Frost — Fri, 14 May 2010 12:45:28 +0000

The US Supreme Court just turned down the Hazelhurst Appeal.
http://www.leagle.com/unsecure/page.htm?shortname=infco20100513188

By: Orange Lantern

Orange Lantern — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 01:48:36 +0000

Even HuffPo has had a few (admittedly lower-profile) counter-attacks, such as:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/iris-lee/who-indeed-is-afraid-of-t_b_515783.html

But if Oprah sets her benevolent gaze on the topic again, anything could happen.

By: Science-Based Medicine » Steven Higgs: Another antivaccine reporter like Dan Olmsted in the making?

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:50:34 +0000

[...] year? Nothing. J.B. Handley seems to be the man who wasn’t there. Well, not quite: it turns out that J.B. Handley has managed to get a little bit of fawning media [...]

By: Russel Twain

Russel Twain — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:42:44 +0000

What kind of professor is Mr. Higgs? I hope it’s not journalism.

By: livsparents

livsparents — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 03:06:44 +0000

Hey, just because he can’t prove it, his epidemic arguments have more holes in it than a wheel of Jarlsberg, his ‘cured’ kids are still autistic and the medical protocols that provide this ‘cure’ are hypothesis built on theory on top of conjecture, we should still allow him to present it all as irrefutable fact. It’s an unwritten Bill of Rights: The right to bear opinions as fact. And we bear it quite well thankyouverymuch.
As Yakov Smirnoff says “WHAT A COUNTRY”

By: autblog

autblog — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:45:34 +0000

Thanks. I added an attribution for the poem.

By: ebohlman

ebohlman — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:54:36 +0000

Progressive politics has a long, proud history in the US, and its accomplishments include a 40-hour work week, minimum wage laws, civil rights, and national parks. Absent from the list are measles, mumps, pertussis, and a other vaccine-preventable diseases.

Since public health infrastructure is also an accomplishment of progressive politics, you could make that statement even stronger.

By: Norwegian Shooter

Norwegian Shooter — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:46:01 +0000

Hallelujah! But don’t get too complacent, Oprah and HuffPo are still lurking out there.

As for the poem, which is great, I guess Auden.