You may have seen Robert F. Kennedy Junior’s thimerosal/autism scare piece in Salon and Rolling Stone that is no doubt going to be quoted ad Nauseam by anti-vax nuts. I haven’t had time yet to read the 286 page report RFK cites, and I won’t comment in full until I have. However Orac today flushes RFK’s credibility down the toilet in a superb piece of writing.
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June 17, 2005
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The reader letters are now up at Salon, and are running roughly 85% in the "you guys fucked up" vein.
Posted by: mw | June 17, 2005 at 12:59 PM
As a Salon subscriber, I've noticed that, science-wise, Salon has always had one big toe dipped in the Dark Side.
Posted by: Mike Nilsen | June 17, 2005 at 01:34 PM
Well, they have pooped on ID before. So it isn't all bad. I think here they just got caught up in "the government is lying to you" fear rhetoric. Which, considering how the government HAS lied to us about things like, oh, WMD's in Iraq and torture at Gitmo, is an easy trap to fall into, I suppose.
Posted by: mw | June 17, 2005 at 03:01 PM
The US governemnt is full of cover-ups.
Here is one.
http://www.heureka.clara.net/gaia/orange.htm
Most Politicians are in the game for one reason only. Line their pockets and ensure their families strength for the future.
Posted by: RW | March 24, 2006 at 02:03 PM
It's a good thing there's no thimerosal-autism link to cover up. But if there was, it'd be vitually impossible to do so for long...
Unless the link's advocates relied on methods like appeal to motive to convince skeptics, instead of evidence.
Posted by: BronzeDog | March 24, 2006 at 02:29 PM