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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFriday Dose of Woo: Who Can Quack The Loudest
Here, Orac can't decide which is the crazier story of the week, so he takes apart both of 'em.
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2013/04/05/who-can-quack-the-loudest/
First up is Italian scientist Gian Paolo Vanoli, who brings a novel idea to he anti-vax movement. He says vaccines will turn you gay.
The vaccine is introduced into the child, the child then grows and tries to find its own personality, and if this is inhibited by mercury or other substances present in the vaccine which enter the brain, the child becomes gay. The problem will especially be present in the next generations, because when gays have children, the children will carry along with them the DNA of their parents illness. Because homosexuality is a disease, even though the WHO has decided that it is not. Who cares! The reality is that it is so. Each vaccination produces homosexuality, because it prevents the formation of ones personality. It is a microform of autism, if you will. You will see how many gays there will be in the next generation, it will be a disaster.
Vanoli's research was also given daylight at noted woo-distributors HuffPo.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/01/vaccines-produce-homosexuality-gay-gian-paolo-vanoli_n_2992953.html
Next is many DUers favourite source for Health news, Mike Adams, the so-called Health Ranger, owner and purveyor of high-quality woo at naturalnews.
However, on this particular Friday, Vanoli, as nutty as he is, was outdone He was outdone in a big way by an old friend. Im referring of course to that all-encompassing crank extraordinaire, that New World Order conspiracy theorist and antiscience loon, Mike Adams. Not content with his usual antiscience rants, Adams decides he needs to publish not one, but ten such rants under the umbrella title of Top ten ways humanity is being murdered in the name of evidence-based science.
The first thing I cant help but mention is that evidence-based science is rather redundant. Science, by its very definition, is evidence-based. The only reason that the term evidence-based medicine was coined is because medicine is not, strictly speaking, a science, hence the use of the term to emphasize that medicine should be based in evidence. However, there are other considerations, such as each patients unique situation, that can impact the application of evidence to individual patients. The same is true of science, when the term science-based medicine was coined. In any case, the ten items in Adams Top Ten list of medical evils are the usual suspects. Ill cherry pick my favorites (based, of course, on my usual blogging propensities) and let you, my readers, have some fun with the rest of Adams list, which he introduces thusly:
The first thing I cant help but mention is that evidence-based science is rather redundant. Science, by its very definition, is evidence-based. The only reason that the term evidence-based medicine was coined is because medicine is not, strictly speaking, a science, hence the use of the term to emphasize that medicine should be based in evidence. However, there are other considerations, such as each patients unique situation, that can impact the application of evidence to individual patients. The same is true of science, when the term science-based medicine was coined. In any case, the ten items in Adams Top Ten list of medical evils are the usual suspects. Ill cherry pick my favorites (based, of course, on my usual blogging propensities) and let you, my readers, have some fun with the rest of Adams list, which he introduces thusly:
Orac then goes on to grind Adams into tiny particles. It's beautiful to see.
Rest at scienceblogs link at the top of post.
Inb4 "scientific materialism".
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Friday Dose of Woo: Who Can Quack The Loudest (Original Post)
SidDithers
Apr 2013
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sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)1. Mike Adams is out of his mind
I'm surprised he hasn't starved to death based on the fear of every damned thing he comes across.
I envision Howard Hughes using Kleenex boxes as slippers whenever I think of Adams.
FSogol
(45,525 posts)2. K & R. n/t