Thursday, January 06, 2011
Jenny McCarthy, Get Out Your Checkbook
The entire anti-vax hysteria championed by doofuses like McCarthy was based on a fraudulent study.
A now-retracted British study that linked autism to childhood vaccines was an "elaborate fraud" that has done long-lasting damage to public health, a leading medical publication reported Wednesday.
An investigation published by the British medical journal BMJ concludes the study's author, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, misrepresented or altered the medical histories of all 12 of the patients whose cases formed the basis of the 1998 study -- and that there was "no doubt" Wakefield was responsible.
I wonder if McCarthy at all interested in making things right to the families of the children she helped to sicken and kill through her outrageous efforts to encourage people not to vaccinate?
A now-retracted British study that linked autism to childhood vaccines was an "elaborate fraud" that has done long-lasting damage to public health, a leading medical publication reported Wednesday.
An investigation published by the British medical journal BMJ concludes the study's author, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, misrepresented or altered the medical histories of all 12 of the patients whose cases formed the basis of the 1998 study -- and that there was "no doubt" Wakefield was responsible.
I wonder if McCarthy at all interested in making things right to the families of the children she helped to sicken and kill through her outrageous efforts to encourage people not to vaccinate?
Labels: Jenny McCarthy, medicine, vaccines, woo
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Ummm, FDA? Department of Commerce?
Anybody??
There’s interesting news about something that just happened in Australia, and needs to happen all over the globe... The makers of the ridiculous plastic "Power Balance" bracelet, which is selling by the millions everywhere, have been forced to publish a comprehensive statement from which we extract:
In our advertising we stated that Power Balance wristbands improved your strength, balance and flexibility. We admit that there is no credible scientific evidence that supports our claims and therefore we engaged in misleading conduct in breach of s52 of the Trade Practices Act 1974.
There’s interesting news about something that just happened in Australia, and needs to happen all over the globe... The makers of the ridiculous plastic "Power Balance" bracelet, which is selling by the millions everywhere, have been forced to publish a comprehensive statement from which we extract:
In our advertising we stated that Power Balance wristbands improved your strength, balance and flexibility. We admit that there is no credible scientific evidence that supports our claims and therefore we engaged in misleading conduct in breach of s52 of the Trade Practices Act 1974.
