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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (26401)	9/5/2012 3:24:46 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

Maher's a dumbass: "I'm not into western medicine .... a flu shot is the worst thing you can do." MAHER: I’m not into western medicine. That to me is a complete scare tactic. It just shows you, you can… KING: You mean you don’t get a — you don’t get a flu shot? MAHER: A flu shot is the worst thing you can do. KING: Why? MAHER: Because it’s got — it’s got mercury. KING: It prevents flu. MAHER: It doesn’t prevent. First of all, that’s… KING: I haven’t had the flu in 25 years since I’ve been taking a flu shot. MAHER: Well, I hate to tell you, Larry, but if you have a flu shot for more than five years in a row, there’s ten times the likelihood that you’ll get Alzheimer’s disease. I would stop getting your… KING: What did you say? MAHER: That went better in rehearsal but it was still good. Absolutely, no the defense against disease is to have a strong immune system. A flu shot just compromises your immune system. sciencebasedmedicine.org Uh oh, he doesn't trust the government! youtube.com Last week, I expressed my surprise and dismay that the Atheist Alliance International chose Bill Maher for the Richard Dawkins Award. I was dismayed because Maher has championed pseudoscience, including dangerous antivaccine nonsense, germ theory denialism complete with repeating myths about Louis Pasteur supposedly recanting on his deathbed, a hostility towards “Western medicine” and an affinity for “alternative medicine,” a history of sympathy to HIV/AIDS denialists, and the activities of PETA through his position on its board of directors, all facts that led me to liken his receiving the Richard Dawkins Award to giving an award for public health to Jenny McCarthy. .... scienceblogs.com Idiot week It is idiot week on TV. I just heard Bill Maher (HBO) say that vaccines don’t prevent disease. Also, that Pasteur recanted on his deathbed. So what? Modern medicine relies on more recent studies than just Pasteur - his theories have been confirmed and improved upon, even if he did recant. But wait - he didn't recant. In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny: “what a maroon!” Just look at this from UNICEF. The vaccine didn't have any effect on Polio, Bill? Really? And what about measles, pertussis, smallpox… ? Whenever a population believes an idiot like Maher and stops vaccinating, disease rates always increase. Always. Idiot! skeptico.blogs.com Bill Maher: Antivaccination wingnut scienceblogs.com

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (26401)	9/20/2012 6:34:59 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

I took it too easy on Maher a couple weeks ago - here's some more of his liberal genius: “To those people who say, ‘My father is alive because of animal experimentation,’ I say ‘Yeah, well, good for you. This dog died so your father could live.’ Sorry, but I am just not behind that kind of trade off.” — Bill Maher “But I’ve often said that if I had — I have two dogs — if I had two retarded children, I’d be a hero. And yet the dogs, which are pretty much the same thing. What? They’re sweet. They’re loving. They’re kind, but they don’t mentally advance at all. … Dogs are like retarded children.” — Bill Maher