Bill Maher’s Lunatic Rant on Vaccines
Posted on October 20, 2009
Bill sounds so nutso that Chris Matthews is the voice of reason!
Mr. Maher questioned letting someone stick “a disease into your arm,” wrongly implying that the flu shot contains a live virus. The flu shot is a killed vaccine. (Only the nasal mist vaccine contains a weakened live virus.)
He said he did not believe that healthy people were vulnerable to dying from the new H1N1 virus. This contradicts statements from the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that young, healthy people from ages 5 to 24 appear particularly vulnerable to this flu. About a third of the 76 children who have died of H1N1 since April have had no underlying health problems.
Mr. Maher also discouraged pregnant women from getting vaccinated. Studies show pregnant women are among the most vulnerable to serious complications from H1N1.
Pure entertainment from the guy who twitters:
If u get a swine flu shot ur an idiot.
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What’s crazier is that he said vaccination isn’t a settled science like global warming. Interesting how nobody here wanted to highlight that quote, seeing as how you all tend to criticize AGW.
Though I have to find it hypocritical for those on the right-wing who criticize Bill Maher for being crazy when Glenn Beck also arhues against the swine flu vaccine.
P.S.: I consider myself conservative, and I am a big fan of Glenn Beck.
Like the previous comment said, I enjoyed him bringing up the “settled science” of global warming.
Also, in typical liberal fashion (per Evan Sayet’s “Hating What’s Right” speech), he is fine putting forth his own opinion. However, once it moves from a monologue to a dialogue, his “facts” cannot hold themselves upright, and he must abrupt switch topic.
It is very dangerous when the scientifically illiterate or at least scientifically averse act as self-proclaimed dispensers of medical information especially when they are risking the health of the many viewers who might accept the uneducated ramblings as fact.
I am more liberal than I am conservative, but choosing to not vaccinate yourself based on your own belief system is very different than playing the role of an expert who can sway the opinions of other people. I believe that there are toads of this nature throughout the political spectrum who are quite willing to lead by example when they don’t have the requisite skills to do so.