Categories
Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Computers and social media Entertainment/culture Medicine Quackery

Tom (son of Jack?) Chick gives a heads up: Ubisoft is using anti-vaccine wingnut Jenny McCarthy in its new Wii game

It’s amazing where anti-vaccine nuttery will metastasize to when you’re not looking. This time around, Tom Chick (who, I’m told but don’t know for sure, is actually Jack Chick’s son) warns us about a new Wii game by Ubisoft called Your Shape. It sounds as though it’s nothing more than another of “personalized” exercise guides, […]

Categories
Cancer Computers and social media Medicine

What’s wrong with Steve Jobs: Yes, Jobs did have a liver transplant, but was it for metastatic insulinoma?

Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal reported that the reason for Apple CEO Steve Job’s five month medical leave of absence from Apple is that he needed a liver transplant, which, according to the story, he underwent a couple of months ago in Memphis. In my discussion, I assumed, for the most part, the […]

Categories
Cancer Computers and social media Medicine

What’s wrong with Steve Jobs, revisited

It’s no secret that, when it comes to computers, my preferred axe has been the Apple Macintosh. Indeed, back in the 1983-1984 school year I was in college living in a house with five other guys, and one of my roommates was a a total Apple geek. He had, as one might expect, an Apple […]

Categories
Antivaccine nonsense Autism Computers and social media Entertainment/culture Humor Medicine Quackery Television

A badge of honor

I’m a bit envious of Dawn Crawford. Why am I envious? She has a badge of honor I have yet to obtain. Jenny McCarthy has blocked her on Twitter. Darn. I’m going to have to see if I can get Jenny to block me too.

Categories
Antivaccine nonsense Autism Blogging Complementary and alternative medicine Computers and social media Entertainment/culture Medicine Popular culture Quackery Television

Jenny McCarthy shows off her intellect

I know, I know it seems like the proverbial shooting fish in a barrel, but some creature that I can’t identify is having a fight somewhere in the neighborhood, freaking out my dog, and now I can’t go back to sleep; so why not blog? In any case, I found out last week that Jenny […]