Comments on: Vaccine lawyer subpoenas Kathleen Seidel

By: Bob King

Bob King — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:06:07 +0000

Just out of PURELY innocent curiosity – is 7 for 15 in 18 months a good record for a lawyer in ordinary practice?

By: Deoxy

Deoxy — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:57:01 +0000

“Are you kidding about the DDT part?”

I haven’t read the JunkScience entry on DDT, but your summary of it (other than the word “nonsense”) appears to be pretty accurate. If that’s what they’re saying (that banning DDT’s use lead to the deaths of millions of Africans), well, they’re right. It’s not a “wonder drug”, it has certain side effects, especially is not used responsibly, but even irresponsible use of DDT does not remotely compare to the million+ that die of malaria EVERY YEAR.

If that’s JunkScience’s worse sin, well, I’d say they’re pretty much gospel.

By: Bad

Bad — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:31:30 +0000

Are you kidding about the DDT part? It’s nothing but the usual “Rachel Carson killed millions” nonsense that treats DDT as if it were a magical wonder drug a completely misrepresents the history of its usage and the opposition to it.

By: Club 166

Club 166 — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:57:49 +0000

Thanks for getting this information out beyond the autism community.

Lawyers can do some good things. But by harassing an innocent blogger, Shoemaker gives those who already have a problem with their image a huge black eye.

I only hope that the mainstream media pick up this story.

Joe

By: William Nuesslein

William Nuesslein — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:50:34 +0000

wildlifer,

RFK is always wrong – in the case of vaccines horribly and immorally wrong. There has never been any credible evidence that vaccines cause, or even exacerbate, autism.

Your implication is true because of its vacuous hypothesis. RFK is purely evil, he will never have a rational thought.

Sometimes junkscience.com is silly – its treatment of Al Gore, for example. But it’s treatments of DDT and GMO have been wonderful. On the whole it is a terrific blog.

By: wildlifer

wildlifer — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 07:20:29 +0000

The only reason junkscience is pro-vaccination, is because of RFK Jr’s position. If RFK Jr was pro-vaccine, junkscience would take the opposite position.

By: dkmnow

dkmnow — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:25:04 +0000

As I’ve just described in my latest blog entry, the list of other bloggers and sites that appear in item #5 of this “subpoena” turn out to be nothing more than half-arsed cut-and-paste of the blogroll in Kathleen’s side-bar. Apparently, by Shoemakers standards of “evidence,” the mere fact that Kathleen tossed a link in her side-bar means that the person linked to is fair game for “investigation.”

Now, obviously, he has no intention of actually investigating anything meaningful here. But by (absurdly) trying to use Kathleen as an involuntary proxy, he is, in effect, threatening to invade the privacy of the entire combined bulk of the autistic self-advocacy, cognitive diversity, and disability rights movements. BAD MOVE, Cliffy!

Frankly, I think this glorified ambulance chaser has gone senile.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:05:49 +0000

I don’t know what you guys have against Junkscience.com, but I have found it to be very enlightening. I take everything on the net with a grain of salt, but as far as I can tell, they just give out the other side of the story you don’t usually hear. I don’t know what misinformation they have given out, and this is the wrong place to argue over that anyways.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:14:26 +0000

Yes..well I’m certain that a web site proclaiming itself to be “A guide to the political left” takes a “fair and balanced” approach to it’s subject matter.

Che is right. Bad sources are a problem. All 3 leave much to be desired. Junkscience is a particularly bad cesspool of misinformation.

By: xray

xray — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:24:47 +0000

Che hates actual data? LOL, of course, real data is dangerous.