Post by nicole on May 10, 2009 10:37:53 GMT -5
The hypocrisy of anti-vaccine activists
Category: Alternative medicine • Antivaccination lunacy • Autism • Medicine
Posted on: May 6, 2009 3:00 PM, by Orac
If there's one thing about the anti-vaccine movement in general and one of its chief mouthpieces for propaganda, the Age of Autism blog, in particular, it's rank hypocrisy. One of the key tenets of anti-vaccine ideology is an unrelenting distrust of big pharma. While that in and of itself would not be entirely unreasonable, given the documented chicanery of that large pharmaceutical companies have indulged in from time to time, but on AoA the crew takes such mistrust beyond reasonable skepticism and straight into tinfoil hat territory. Indeed, "pharma shill!" is one of their favorite cries any time someone has the temerity to defend vaccines or to point out that science simply doesn't support the anti-vaccine movement's pet contention that vaccines somehow cause autism, a belief that is utterly immune to reason and science. In any case, any connection with the filthy lucre of normal commerce is viewed as an instant reason to launch ad hominem attacks on the credibility of the person defending vaccines.
Category: Alternative medicine • Antivaccination lunacy • Autism • Medicine
Posted on: May 6, 2009 3:00 PM, by Orac
If there's one thing about the anti-vaccine movement in general and one of its chief mouthpieces for propaganda, the Age of Autism blog, in particular, it's rank hypocrisy. One of the key tenets of anti-vaccine ideology is an unrelenting distrust of big pharma. While that in and of itself would not be entirely unreasonable, given the documented chicanery of that large pharmaceutical companies have indulged in from time to time, but on AoA the crew takes such mistrust beyond reasonable skepticism and straight into tinfoil hat territory. Indeed, "pharma shill!" is one of their favorite cries any time someone has the temerity to defend vaccines or to point out that science simply doesn't support the anti-vaccine movement's pet contention that vaccines somehow cause autism, a belief that is utterly immune to reason and science. In any case, any connection with the filthy lucre of normal commerce is viewed as an instant reason to launch ad hominem attacks on the credibility of the person defending vaccines.
Continue reading........ scienceblogs.com/insolence/2009/05/time_to_rub_age_of_autisms_face_in_its_h.php
), and see if one of them would like to do it. If not, I will try. 
