MedPage Hijynx

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Put on your foil hat and head on over to MedPage.  My most recent post over there has brought some ire from the Autism/Mercury conspiracy theorists.  Go on over there and join the zany and madcap discussion.

I am really confused as to why someone running for president would want to emulate a woman famous for taking her clothes off.

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Odd.

4 thoughts on “MedPage Hijynx”

  1. Alex

    Dr. Rob,
    http://www.healthsentinel.com/news.php?id=2186&title=+Ga.+girl+helps+link+autism+to+childhood+vaccines&event=news_print_list_item

    I think this article is what the woman on the MedPage blog was talking about. It certainly seems intriguing, but frustrating that it’s so secretive that other doctors and researchers can’t see the hypothesized mechanism behind it all.

    It’s so sad when issues of health and medicine become so polarized, and people start taking matters of science and health personally. This case in Georgia seems to suggest there is more research that needs to be done, but I’m worried that others will seize upon this and use it improperly.

  2. Alex

    Dr. Rob,
    http://www.healthsentinel.com/news.php?id=2186&title=+Ga.+girl+helps+link+autism+to+childhood+vaccines&event=news_print_list_item

    I think this article is what the woman on the MedPage blog was talking about. It certainly seems intriguing, but frustrating that it’s so secretive that other doctors and researchers can’t see the hypothesized mechanism behind it all.

    It’s so sad when issues of health and medicine become so polarized, and people start taking matters of science and health personally. This case in Georgia seems to suggest there is more research that needs to be done, but I’m worried that others will seize upon this and use it improperly.

  3. Liz Ditz

    Remember Dr. Flea’s great series on vaccine-preventable illness? That would make a great patient-education handout — “Why We Vaccinate”
    * Yellow Alert–why to vaccinate against Hepatitus B (HBV)
    * Dew Drops on Rose Petals–Chicken Pox (Varicella)
    * The Cough of One Hundred Days–Whooping Cough (Pertussis)
    * Risus Sardonicus–Tetanus
    * Strangling Angel–Diptheria
    * Go Home and Die–Hib (Haemophilus influenzae type b)
    * The Can from Hell–Polio (Poliomyelitis)
    * On My Left Shoulder–Smallpox (Variola)

    I just wish I had been smart enough to snap up those posts as page-source….

  4. Liz Ditz

    Remember Dr. Flea’s great series on vaccine-preventable illness? That would make a great patient-education handout — “Why We Vaccinate”
    * Yellow Alert–why to vaccinate against Hepatitus B (HBV)
    * Dew Drops on Rose Petals–Chicken Pox (Varicella)
    * The Cough of One Hundred Days–Whooping Cough (Pertussis)
    * Risus Sardonicus–Tetanus
    * Strangling Angel–Diptheria
    * Go Home and Die–Hib (Haemophilus influenzae type b)
    * The Can from Hell–Polio (Poliomyelitis)
    * On My Left Shoulder–Smallpox (Variola)

    I just wish I had been smart enough to snap up those posts as page-source….

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