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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Entertainment/culture Medicine Popular culture Quackery Television

More on the antivaccination propaganda in “Eli Stone”

Last week, I did one of my inimitable rants about an ABC television show set to air on Thursday called Eli Stone, in which a lawyer sues a pharmaceutical company for “mercuritol” (an obvious allusion to thimerosal) in vaccines and how it supposedly caused a child’s autism. Basically, I called it an irresponsible bit of […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Entertainment/culture Medicine Television

Irresponsible anti-vaccination idiocy about autism to air on ABC’s “Eli Stone”

It’s times like these that I wish the Hollywood writers’ strike had really and truly shut down production of new dramas completely. A new series on ABC set to premiere on January 31 looks as though it’s going to dish up a heapin’ helpin’ of the vilest antivaccination lies and propaganda that will potentially endanger […]

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A medical Jack Bauer

Sadly, today would have been the day that the new season of 24 would have started. Even though after the first five or six episodes last season stunk bad enough to knock the proverbial buzzard off a manure wagon, I’m still a sucker for the show and had high hopes that it could stage a […]

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Entertainment/culture Science fiction/fantasy Television

Open mouth. Insert foot.

Given the way that he’s so successfully resurrected Doctor Who, I had come to believe that Russell T. Davies could do no wrong. I guess I was wrong: The Daily Post is reporting that comments made by Executive Producer Russell T. Davies at the preview screening of Voyage of the Damned have caused quite a […]

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Now that makes for a complicated holiday gathering

If you think spending the holidays with your family is stressful, imagine what it might be like for the Doctor: By the way, I’ve managed to check out the Doctor Who Christmas Special. By and large it’s pretty good; maybe I’ll post a review sometime in the next few days, while I’m taking it fairly […]