Dave's Noon's so completely whacked that I was simply going to ignore his latest effort to salvage any netroots relevance he may have once enjoyed. He's failing miserably in his attempt, naturally, which is too bad, since he proved long ago his total epic academic fail as a historian (see, " David HooglandNoon, Abominable Academic Wretch "). It turns out that Professor...
... the H1N1 vaccine not only won't do any good, but will likely hurt people (an even bigger leap). DaveNoon links to a very detailed and thoughtful response from Mark Crislip at Science Based Medicine . As Crislip notes, in order to believe the Atlantic article, you basically have to accept a few outlier studies and ignore roughly 15,000 others showing flu vaccines to be both safe and...
praying for time, originally uploaded by TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³. DaveNoon remarks that the House health care bill would cover Christian Science prayer treatments in lieu of medical care.
The House bill will honor the Hyde amendment by forbiding any federal funding for abortion. Lindsay Beyerstein and DaveNoon note the Senate version has a provision for funding Christian Science prayer treatments . The funding will go to the Christian Science Church. The religious organization was founded by Mary Baker Eddy . She was influenced by Phineas Quimby . From Eddy's bio page...
... is evidence that Beck, unlike Michele Bachmann , might be able to read ( if not well read , as DaveNoon pointed out a couple months back . . . ) Do tune in .
I'm still retching from this video. It hurts. There's not much I can say that Orac doesn't cover, except to note that Dr. Werner seems to believe that the proton, neutron, and electron are constituent pieces of a cell. (h/t DaveNoon ) Oh, and on a related issue ... Backed by some of the most powerful members of the Senate, a little-noticed provision in the health care overhaul bill would...
