Dan Olmsted, one of the greedy ringleaders of the anti-vaccine crowd...

[trotsky]

channels his inner Glenn Beck and blames PROGRESSIVISM for not taking his totally-unsupported-by-facts beliefs seriously.

Orac explains: http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2010/11/blaming_failure_to_promote_anti-vaccine.php

Olmsted's unhappy that his movement has been unable to convince scientists and physicians that vaccines cause autism; so he blames "progressivism" as being a huge part of the reason.

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Or, in other words, "Waaaaaahhhh! No one is reading or believing our book!" It's hard not to feel a distinct sense of schadenfreude. I haven't read the whole book, but I've had a chance to read the introduction and a couple of chapters, and it's hard for me to say that it couldn't have happened to a nicer couple of guys. The book is badly written, not well argued, and pummels the reader over the head with pure anti-vaccine views, recycling the same nonesense Olmsted has been promoting since at least 2005 and that AoA has been serving up on a daily basis for three years. In other words, it's exactly what one would expect from Blaxill and Olmsted.

No wonder no one is interested, and Blaxill and Olmsted blame everyone but themselves for that. That's hardly a "progressive" attitude. The problem isn't that progressives don't "get" autism; it's that they appear to "get" the anti-vaccine movement as represented by Blaxill and Olmsted all too well.

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[madrchsod]

4. i`m sure he`s vaccinated

[Ian David]

5. Good point. I bet he even got the HPV, hepatitis and chickenpox vaccines. n/t

[SidDithers]

2. K&R...nt

Sid

[madrchsod]

3. he and others have brainwashed a lot of good people.

it`s tragic to see so many intelligent people fall for these quacks.

[HuckleB]

6. Rec!

[HuckleB]

7. "I Am Bonnie Offit!"

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2010/11/i_am_bonnie_offit.php#more

:rofl: