tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post4906928215239770428..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Why Jenny McCarthy?Stuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-36643257320795788782013-07-19T14:07:01.690-07:002013-07-19T14:07:01.690-07:00True enough, but I doubt that it will prevent them...True enough, but I doubt that it will prevent them from making her into one.Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-76950054777419991422013-07-19T14:03:31.209-07:002013-07-19T14:03:31.209-07:00Jenny McCarthy is not a conservative. She's a...Jenny McCarthy is not a conservative. She's a huge lib aligned with RFK Jr.CatherineMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04909616844180482228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-66237326994381784642013-07-17T14:32:41.359-07:002013-07-17T14:32:41.359-07:00Mark, have at it. Put up or shut up.Mark, have at it. Put up or shut up.Larry Sheldonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12653436584890594776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-4862346680191619852013-07-17T09:36:31.710-07:002013-07-17T09:36:31.710-07:00Larry Sheldon, It's easy to rebut your rant wi...Larry Sheldon, It's easy to rebut your rant with science, but I'd rather just mention that your tone exactly harmonizes with the tone of Warmists when reasonably challenged.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11610216459168823816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-74828553502410960252013-07-16T17:40:23.703-07:002013-07-16T17:40:23.703-07:00I visited (with my mother) a friend of hers that &...I visited (with my mother) a friend of hers that "lived" in a ward like the ones pictured here:<br /><br />http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=iron+lung&id=559ECC2F4A6963DF52A7C6D5715C51A93B893B28&FORM=IQFRBA<br />Larry Sheldonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12653436584890594776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-26138096509001648212013-07-16T17:35:26.651-07:002013-07-16T17:35:26.651-07:00Some of this tripe would be funny if the millions ...Some of this tripe would be funny if the millions dying of preventable disease were not part of it.<br /><br />I am not a doctor, no training in medicine except from my mother (we couldn't afford much professional doctoring) and then proceeding to live to 74 so far. And raising three active, athletic girls.<br /><br />But the stuff about "letting the robust human immune system do its thing" is criminally wrong.<br /><br />Do any of you understand how "the immune system" works?<br /><br />If you did not say "no", I think you have convicted yourself--I don't and I get from the doctor folk I see that they don't either.<br /><br />But I think some things I do know. Somehow the body, when it detects a disease and identifies it as such launches "antibodies" that attack and damage or kill the invader.<br /><br />The detection is the key. How does the detection thing get started? Some comes through in the DNA, apparently, but my understanding is that most comes from past dealings -- having survived previous invasions.<br /><br />I am (we believe) immune to smallpox because as a small child was infected on purpose ("vaccinated") with cowpox--much less dangerous that smallpox but apparently closely related enough for the antibodies to be useful.<br /><br />When I was a child people around me in large numbers were injured by and died of poliomyelitis. Want to talk about terrorism?<br /><br />Fortunately, before I got it, Dr. Salk and Dr. Sabine had figured out how to kill (in one case) or attenuate (in the other) the virus so that when vaccinated, the recipient would develop the antibodies without developing the disease.<br /><br />Left to its own robustness, our immune system would kill us from the diseases for which there are vaccinations available.<br /><br />I shall not be very surprised, if I live long enough, to hear that anti-cancer vaccines have been developed.Larry Sheldonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12653436584890594776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-26549880399858963872013-07-16T10:27:06.275-07:002013-07-16T10:27:06.275-07:00Her "denialism" (that's become a mar...Her "denialism" (that's become a marketable term, hasn't it) is not a "conservative" point of view. Her perspective is actually healthy when properly moderated. <br /><br />Why does Specter encourage people to defer their dignity and judgment to "experts"? This is the problem with contemporary societies. People seek to escape responsibility for their actions, and people like Specter condemn those individuals who exhibit any evidence of critical thought.<br /><br />Vaccines are not without risk, including causing mental and physical defects, and even death. They are also not all created equal, and each variant carries its own risks, which must be evaluated against its purported benefits.n.nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04252447117532342957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-91370531418024775692013-07-16T09:19:23.068-07:002013-07-16T09:19:23.068-07:00I hold no brief for McCarthy or chelation therapy,...I hold no brief for McCarthy or chelation therapy, but it's not anti-science to view the pervasive pressure to omni-vaccinate as unhealthy. <br /><br />1. Dissenters from omni-vaccination are treated like AGW skeptics, ie 'deniers' in your vocabulary.<br />2. I completely accept the validity of Jenner's work and the probably need for mass vaccination during public health emergencies, especially in societies with poor hygiene and malnutrition.<br />3. It is scientifically likely that the robustly evolved human immune system is the best epidemiological defense . Therefore the social question is how best to develop individual immune systems. Persistent mass interference by omni-vaccination of undeveloped immune ystems is a therefore at least suspect. In fact The Hygeine Hypothesis is now much more than hypothesis and it's good science that the healthiest populations were well-nourished who have caught all the usual childhood diseases - like me and my children.<br /><br />Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11610216459168823816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-71453346761000683372013-07-16T09:19:07.450-07:002013-07-16T09:19:07.450-07:00Why would anyone take McCarthy for a conservative?...Why would anyone take McCarthy for a conservative?Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.com