A reader wrote to alert me to The Vaccine Aliens by Raymond W. Gallup. This is a book that:
…carries a message elemental, truthful and powerful. A rapid and ominous deterioration is taking place in the health of our children, of which the increasing incidence of childhood autism is just one of the markers.
Aaaagh! That’s right - it’s a science fiction story about a father whose son developed autism after getting the MMR vaccine. It tells how he and his friends stumble on shape-shifting aliens at a pharmaceutical company that want to destroy the human race with vaccines. It sounds like bad science fiction that I wouldn’t normally comment on (really bad sci-if is great – I love “Plan 9 From Outer Space”), but looking at the author’s links it seems he wants us to believe this is a well researched book based on truth. Shape shifting aliens who want to destroy the human race using vaccines that cause autism? Yeah, I can’t see why anyone wouldn’t think this isn’t truthful. And apparently the author claims this is a “unique and original story”.
Unique and original? Hardly. David Icke has already written about shape-shifting aliens, as well as vaccines and autism. This Gallup guy may be crazy but he has a whole long way to go before he even gets close to David Icke.
Anyway, I think I’ll skip the book and wait for the movie. It’ll star Tom Cruise (“vaccines are pseudo-science – here, take these vitamins”), with Robert F. Kennedy in a cameo as the tireless investigator exposing the truth. I can barely wait.
That picture made me spit out my coffee. You owe me a new keyboard Skeptico!
Posted by: Rockstar | July 13, 2005 at 07:38 AM
Oh my. I may have to mention this tonight; it's just too delicious for only one blog to share...
Posted by: Orac | July 13, 2005 at 10:33 AM
Directed by Oliver Stone.
...with Matt Damon as David Kirby, the brash, idealistic young journalist that just wants to find "the truth", (even at the risk of having his tiny brain sucked out by shape-shifting aliens.)
Now, who will play the evil alien overlord masquerading as the CEO of
Pfimerk, the sinister "healthcare" corporation behind all of this horror?
Posted by: paul | July 13, 2005 at 01:16 PM
Oprah. For sure.
Posted by: Rockstar | July 13, 2005 at 01:54 PM
TAAP.info
is a Raymond Gallup's baby. It's a source of really bad info on autism epidemiolgy.
You can't tell much about statistics once the shape changing aliens take hold of the CDC, though. :-)
AD
Posted by: Autism Diva | July 13, 2005 at 04:54 PM
Yeah, who did the cover for his book? His autistic child?
Posted by: mw | July 13, 2005 at 05:48 PM
Oh wow... This is an MMR vaccine scare story! No thimerosal in sight. Sometimes I get these guys mixed up... MMR has never contained thimerosal.
Well, of course the old guy who counsels the father would have to be:
http://briandeer.com/wakefield/hugh-fudenberg.htm and
http://www.kevinleitch.co.uk/wp/?p=243
It could be amusing
Posted by: HN | July 13, 2005 at 10:53 PM
You know direct? Oliver Stone, of course!
Either him, or George Romero.
Posted by: Orac | July 14, 2005 at 05:14 AM
Great story. I sent you some link love ;o)
"Yeah, who did the cover for his book? His autistic child?"
Hmmm.
Posted by: Kev | July 14, 2005 at 06:03 AM
very inappropriate mw. bit of a buzz-kill.
Posted by: paul | July 14, 2005 at 07:11 AM
By the way, Kirby is still at it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/david-kirby/autism-mercury-and-the-c_4133.html
citing some California autism study numbers that don't actually seem to bolster his case.
One of the commenters is wishing him luck in his upcoming testimony on the 20th. I'm sure that means we'll get a steaming load of his "facts" next week.
Posted by: paul | July 14, 2005 at 10:12 AM
There will be a march on Washington DC (the 100 parent march?) on the 20th. Kirby is going to speak there to the gathered group outside of the White House. They are planning to do things like tie silver mylar ribbons to their arms and around their heads to indicate the damage done by thimerosal (yup). They will march past the FDA building.
The march is called "power of truth"
http://www.nationalautismassociation.org/images/rally.jpg
They'll all be mercury slogan t-shirts, one kid is supposed to be wearing a shirt that says, "Thimerosal gave me autism and all I got was this crapy (sic) tshirt"
Nice touch. Kirby's best lines have all been mocked and debunked. But that won't stop him. One expects his next assignment will be writing for 'Dead Elvis is the father of my love-child' tabloids.
-Mitzy Lou
Posted by: Mitzy Lou Matsui | July 14, 2005 at 01:14 PM
If aliens wanted to wipe us out wouldn't they just fire a big old alien ray gun at the earth and take us all out in one fell swoop? Why the stealthy approach?
Posted by: Nigel Pond | July 19, 2005 at 09:35 AM
If aliens wanted to wipe us out wouldn't they just fire a big old alien ray gun at the earth and take us all out in one fell swoop? Why the stealthy approach?
I believe Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomer mentioned this: A method that is both stealthy (to set up), very damaging, and difficult to stop: Nudge a bunch of 100m meteors towards our major cities and military installations. They've got plenty of ammo out there between Mars and Jupiter.
Posted by: BronzeDog | September 15, 2005 at 06:20 PM