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The Woo Boat, part 3: Andrew Wakefield goes full Mike Adams antivax

Hard as it is to believe, it’s been seven months since the Conspira-Sea Cruise, or, as I called it when I discovered it before it set sail, The Woo Boat. After it set sail and I started reading reports about it from two reporters who took the cruise in order to report on it, Anna […]

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The Woo Boat, part 2: Andrew Wakefield versus the skeptics

Sadly, Captain Merrill Stubing is not the captain of this boat, which is not the Love Boat. It would be awesome if that were the case, but it's not. I wonder if they let the astrologist navigate.

About six months ago, I was highly amused to discover something called the Conspira-Sea Cruise, which I referred to at The Woo Boat. As I said at the time, file this one under the category: You can’t make stuff like this up. Certainly, I couldn’t. I’ve never been on a cruise. Quite frankly, the very […]

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The Woo Boat

Sadly, Captain Merrill Stubing is not the captain of this boat, which is not the Love Boat. It would be awesome if that were the case, but it's not. I wonder if they let the astrologist navigate.

File this one under the category: You can’t make stuff like this up. (At least, I can’t.) Let’s say you’re a die hard all-conspiracy conspiracy theorist and alternative medicine believer (a not uncommon combination). You love Alex Jones and Mike Adams and agree with their rants that there is a New World Order trying to […]