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In reply to the discussion: Anti-vax asshat RFK Jr. on Dr. Oz, promoting his anti-vax asshat book... [View all]Tumbulu
(6,278 posts)175. No, the issues worth discussing exist
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But no one here will because they get shut down by rude posters.
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Anti-vax asshat RFK Jr. on Dr. Oz, promoting his anti-vax asshat book... [View all]
SidDithers
Sep 2014
OP
Daughter of PBS journalist Robert MacNeil and mother of a child with autism (can't shut her up/down)
proverbialwisdom
Sep 2014
#69
The article links to this CDC webpage, please read it. It's factual, nothing objectionable there.
proverbialwisdom
Sep 2014
#112
Your continued support of a criminal and his agenda on DU is sickening.
beam me up scottie
Sep 2014
#131
Not up-to-date? No wonder, blame in-the-weeds material plus media's failure to inform the public.
proverbialwisdom
Sep 2014
#172
no, I asked somebody if it were accurate. Heavens to mergatroid on the hyperbole.
Voice for Peace
Sep 2014
#133
Fracking is also dangerous to the health of millions. Why won't any of you that
rhett o rick
Sep 2014
#185
Depends on the question. I would put people who still press the question of whether vaccines cause
LeftishBrit
Sep 2014
#152
Climate change deniers, Holocaust deniers, Birthers, people who believe ACORN stole the elections...
YoungDemCA
Sep 2014
#180
No problem. I hadn't seen it either until I followed Archae's link and looked around at some of...
xocet
Sep 2014
#22
Who ignores the effects of BPA and other cumulative toxins in food and other products?
Voice for Peace
Sep 2014
#44
Your post is a great way to defeat argument by authority. However, the letter's content is not...
xocet
Sep 2014
#136
not here to debate your point of view, or defend Dr. Oz, who has always given me the creeps
Voice for Peace
Sep 2014
#142
This is why the static Oz got from Congress was well deserved. What makes this even more of a white
still_one
Sep 2014
#7
i wish you were right, but you are wrong. posts on DU have reflected such views
still_one
Sep 2014
#146
Please review post 63. Of course, some would rather go blind than see but I hope you're smarter.
proverbialwisdom
Sep 2014
#186
I probably know 100 physicians personally, and every single one supports vaccination.
ColesCountyDem
Sep 2014
#19
The following graphic makes clear how current official recommended schedules are varied by country.
proverbialwisdom
Sep 2014
#70
You are not up-to-date. In addition to the sources below, look around for audio of #CDCwhistleblower
proverbialwisdom
Sep 2014
#63
NTSA? Let me guess from the source/context: "No Telling Stupid Anything?" Well, I disagree.
proverbialwisdom
Sep 2014
#102
1) #hearthiswell on youtube 2) that Baez song, Diamonds and Rust, 'Then give me another word for it'
proverbialwisdom
Sep 2014
#105
Kennedy calls world-leading immunologists "biostitutes", like prostitutes...
SidDithers
Sep 2014
#27
It will not happen on this website, I think there are too many insecure people here
Tumbulu
Sep 2014
#36
No I am not, and this is just the typical thing- lumping not approving of gmo's in
Tumbulu
Sep 2014
#177
So you admit abusing the alert system to push your point of view. Apparently you don't
rhett o rick
Sep 2014
#149
"but those who believe in vaccines are so terrified" "No arguments are ever won by name-calling."
Thor_MN
Sep 2014
#38
Respectfully, you are wrong: "There actually are plenty of studies showing that vaccines can be
FSogol
Sep 2014
#40
You may be correct about many or most anti-vaxxers, but not all are con men or grifters.
Voice for Peace
Sep 2014
#49
I agree but it's never an effective strategy to attack people in order to change their beliefs.
Voice for Peace
Sep 2014
#57
I don't know if there is or isn't. But there are legitimate stories of damaged children; and it's no
Voice for Peace
Sep 2014
#61
Ironically, its the anti-vaccination movement that refuses to have a real dialogue
YoungDemCA
Sep 2014
#182
You're more concerned with disproven claims of vaccine danger than REAL diseases that kill
Arugula Latte
Sep 2014
#200
Re: "dr" Oz: giving out suspect medical advice should not be allowed on tv
NightWatcher
Sep 2014
#41
You are asking a lot. It's so much more fun to get out tar and feathers than actually
rhett o rick
Sep 2014
#122
Regardless of an improbable autism connection, thimerosal does not belong in children's vaccines.
pnwmom
Sep 2014
#65
did your PHD tell you much mercury you inhale living downwind of a coal-fired power plant?
hobbit709
Sep 2014
#83
One wrong exposure doesn't excuse more -- especially one that's injected directly into
pnwmom
Sep 2014
#87
We don't eat any tuna around here, which is the fish most likely to have high levels.
pnwmom
Sep 2014
#155
I guess no one told you that pregnant women now take flu vaccines with thimerosol,
pnwmom
Sep 2014
#157
Excellent OP as always, Sid. RFK Jr. is a stain on the progressive cause. nt
msanthrope
Sep 2014
#80
I am glad you are so health conscience. How about fracking? Are you as passionate about
rhett o rick
Sep 2014
#96
Don't you agree that fracking is a very serious health concern? Or do you agree with Pres Obama
rhett o rick
Sep 2014
#103
Some feel better if they find someone to tar and feather and heaven help those that try
rhett o rick
Sep 2014
#173
just so there is no confusion, i completely support the use of asshat in this context
La Lioness Priyanka
Sep 2014
#191
Familiar w the following? If not, please investigate further including Youtube #hearthiswell (~340?)
proverbialwisdom
Sep 2014
#198
Then removal of thimerosal from children's vaccines 13 years ago should have affected autism rates
bhikkhu
Sep 2014
#199
It's crushing how misleading a single sentence can be, not to mention paragraphs.
proverbialwisdom
Sep 2014
#201
I cannot imagine disregarding the informed& unequivocal views of CDC scientist Dr William W Thompson
proverbialwisdom
Sep 2014
#205
I cannot imagine ignoring all the science leading away from the thimerosal/autism theory
bhikkhu
Sep 2014
#206
CORRECTION: 'Dr. William Thompson, a senior CDC researcher' 'senior scientist Dr. William Thompson'
proverbialwisdom
Sep 2014
#207
I wonder if he'd recommend "no" to an ebola vaccine to those in Liberia?
TexasMommaWithAHat
Sep 2014
#208
There aren't enough smilies to cover up how un-democratic character assassination is.
Octafish
Sep 2014
#215
If I posted every single time you tried suggesting a DUer was a paid operative
NuclearDem
Sep 2014
#243
Funny how the posters who cry "hero worship" anytime anything positive is said about Obama
zappaman
Sep 2014
#233