This really bothers me a lot. It is a shame for those unfortunate souls who really have what she pretended to have for a paycheck. She should be seriously ashamed, and all should be appalled by her actions. I have spent a lot of time doing my best to help with working with REAL disabled people my whole life, as my little brother is autistic and people with similar aliments strike a very serious chord with me. For someone to lie so much…it angers me greatly.

And for those of you who swallow this garbage: Do some research and exercise a little critical thinking before you go blasting people that already have. Don’t believe everything someone says just cause they have a pretty face. Please people, it’s so obvious it really is just sad. The girl need psychological help, not medical.

The term “hoax” is not applied only to conscious fabrication. For example, the scare caused by Orson Welles’ “War of the Worlds” broadcast is widely referred to as a “hoax”, though it obviously was not an intentional deception. The overall principle is that a “hoax” does not necessarily require a purposeful act by a single creator, but may instead be “spontaneously generated” out of a cultural milieu. “Bogus Warning” fliers are egregious examples.

But, it is not a good idea to assume such distinctions in casual discussion!

I bloody hope not, for his sake. It’d make him look more of an arse than he already looks!

@ Will:
“sorry im to clever for that”
Evidently, you’re not.

@ Sullivan:
“You may notice that I have not called Ms. Jennings a hoax. Neither have other bloggers who have covered this. It is the news stories who are bringing up the “hoax” question.”

Indeed. It’s entirely possible that she wasn’t hoaxing. It’s entirely possible that this was a psycho-somatic/psychogenic issue going on, that has since resolved itself. The mind can do some funny things to a person: amputees feeling pain in the limb that’s missing; people seeing the face of Christ in a piece of toast; people smelling scents that nobody else can smell; people losing sensation in only a part of their hand and then getting it back again some days or weeks later; indeed, many other sorts of things.

@ Will:
“the only movement disorder operating here is your lack of anything intelligent to say”

No. The only movement disorder here is you’re unwillingness to accept that you were wrong and just bugger off yourself.

will, why even take the time to write that? It is childish and, frankly, a bit ironic.

You would do well not to tell others to bugger off this site. Then again, you would do well to back your arguments up with actual data or at least something on topic.

You may notice that I have not called Ms. Jennings a hoax. Neither have other bloggers who have covered this. It is the news stories who are bringing up the “hoax” question. Now, you appear to be accepting without any reservation the idea that Ms. Jennings suffered a vaccine reaction. Very interesting. Even Generation Rescue dropped her without a word.

I would also point out that questioning the “intelligence levels” of bloggers—in other words using intelligence levels as an insult—is pretty rude on a disability-focused blog. I realize that such insults are ubiquitous, but perhaps you could rise above that and realize that using disability as an insult is just plain wrong?

I really don’t mind people coming here and disagreeing with me. I do take issue with bullies, both the more overt and the less obvious. Keep that in mind while you take the odd stance of telling regular (and respectful) commenters on this site to “bugger off”. You weren’t exactly on the moral high ground in terms of rudeness with your other comments.

I assume this is a reference to thimerosal, and quite absurd. It appears that “Will” is from Australia. Australia is home to the box jellyfish, the puffer fish, the stonefish, the cone snail, the blue-ringed octopus, the funnel-web spider, and many notorious poisonous snakes. Is he going to claim thimerosal is more toxic than even one of these creatures?

You will present some evidence in your next post.

“bugger off and annoy someone else gullible enough to listen to your idiocy”

Mate, you are the one that came to this website, and you are the one that does not appear to have a posting history here.

You are a classic case. Nothing you can say or do will change who you are and how you think. You are a worthless loudmouth who thinks he knows it all.

I suggest that you grow up and put up, or bugger off.

Stop wasting our time.