"A statement of fact cannot be insolent." The miscellaneous ramblings of a surgeon/scientist on medicine, quackery, science, and pseudoscience (and anything else that interests him).

Tag: Samantha Bee

One more example of conservative antivaccinationism

Post author By Orac
Post date June 6, 2014
87 Comments on One more example of conservative antivaccinationism

The other day, I expressed my disappointment at how Samantha Bee of The Daily Show got the politics of antivaccinationism wrong in a segment that was funny, but promoted the stereotype of antivaccine activists as being mainly crunchy lefties. In that post, I mentioned how the Texas Republican Party had a plank in its platform […]

Tags antivaccine, Daily Show, party platform, Samantha Bee, Texas Republican Party, vaccines

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The Daily Show: Hilarious segment about vaccines, not so hilariously wrong about the politics of vaccine denialism

Post author By Orac
Post date June 4, 2014
145 Comments on The Daily Show: Hilarious segment about vaccines, not so hilariously wrong about the politics of vaccine denialism

Not surprisingly, being a guy who leans mildly left, I like The Daily Show. Jon Stewart and his writers are incredibly adept at skewering all manner of bovine excrement, be it political, scientific, or otherwise. In particular, the way Stewart and company skewered the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) for its promotion of […]

Tags antivaccine, Bill Posey, conservative, Dan Burton, Jon Stewart, liberal, Ohio, Paul Offit, Samantha Bee, The Daily Show, vaccines

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