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friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)
Sat Feb 27, 2016, 01:56 AM Feb 2016

Sail (Far) Away: At Sea with America's Largest Floating Gathering of Conspiracy Theorists

http://jezebel.com/sail-far-away-at-sea-with-americas-largest-floating-1760900554


Amongst the other ...colorful... characters, look who else showed up:


Most notably, there was Andrew Wakefield, the British gastroenterologist who authored the now-infamous 1998 study that suggested there might be a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. Jenny McCarthy was breathed into being because of Andrew Wakefield.

The wider world hasn’t been kind to Wakefield, who lost his medical license in 2010 and is widely described as a one-man public health disaster. Here, though, he was treated as a battle-scarred hero. The room hung on his every word.

“One in two children will have autism by 2032,” he told us, to horrified gasps. “We are facing dark times. The government and the pharmaceutical industry own your bodies and the bodies of your children.”

“There are no [vaccine] exemptions anymore,” Sean David Morton piped in. “Not even if you’re Jewish. But I think Obama made an exception for Muslims.” He switched into what may have been an impression of someone with an Arabic accent: “Ay yi yi!”


Lots more of Wakefield's BS at the link. An interesting read, but your brain will hurt after you read it...
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Sail (Far) Away: At Sea with America's Largest Floating Gathering of Conspiracy Theorists (Original Post) friendly_iconoclast Feb 2016 OP
Why that boat didn't explode from the crtical mass of stupidity, I'll never know. Archae Feb 2016 #1
Imagine what would happen if that ship sank! progressoid Feb 2016 #2
Weren't They Afraid They'd Go Over The Edge And Fall Off The World??? Ike Y Feb 2016 #3
One commenter at Jezebel called this "the RMS Lusinsania"... friendly_iconoclast Feb 2016 #4

Archae

(46,338 posts)
1. Why that boat didn't explode from the crtical mass of stupidity, I'll never know.
Sat Feb 27, 2016, 11:24 AM
Feb 2016

Ye gawds, any and every screwball was there.

progressoid

(49,992 posts)
2. Imagine what would happen if that ship sank!
Sat Feb 27, 2016, 12:47 PM
Feb 2016

Who caused the ship to sink?

The government?
The Illuminati?
Big Pharma?

 

Ike Y

(22 posts)
3. Weren't They Afraid They'd Go Over The Edge And Fall Off The World???
Sun Feb 28, 2016, 05:05 PM
Feb 2016

Hey, I'm sure their were some F-Es there!

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