Michael Specter gives vaccine rejectionism a deserved whack upside the head.

5 Dec

So says Autism News Beat. Check out his post, and check out the video below.

OK, he isn’t any real expert. He’s not a doctor or scientist. He’s an author. But it is interesting to listen to what he has to say. From my perspective, it is interesting that vaccine rejectionism is the main example of denialism.

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2 Responses to “Michael Specter gives vaccine rejectionism a deserved whack upside the head.”

  1. Laurentius Rex December 5, 2009 at 13:11 #

    It doesn’t matter that he is not a scientist (BTW in the UK we can’t see what this video is about, internet censorship is real and it is the commercial interests that have imposed it more than authoritarian governments have)

    David Kirby by no stretch of the imagination is a scientist yet his book has wreaked havoc.

    The war is on the media front, not in the ‘polite’ exchange of peer reviewers which the general public either knows nothing of or cares even less.

    It is whoever grabs the headlines or is picked up on the station bookshelf who commands the field and hopefully there will be an increasing number of books available and popular that will reverse the trend and restore sanity to the world.

    The next rocky ride is for the future of the planet never mind vaccinations and public health. I think the idiots will destroy it with denialism right up to the point where the worlds capitals are more like Venice or Atlantis even.

    I can’t say I am sorry for Dubai, they had it coming, they have literally and metaphorically built on sand.

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