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In West Palm Beach, Florida, the Jehovah’s Witnesses are beginning their convention season by hosting 14 consecutive weeks of conventions. That’s a lot of doom and gloom, considering that this year’s theme is “Keep On The Watch!”, relating current world events such as earthquakes and the swine flu to biblical prophecies of the apocalypse. Heavy [...]
Spoken for the truth. Shirley Wu has gained a new reader here, and I suggest you check out what she has to say to Oprah Winfrey in her blog over the fact that Ms. Winfrey has decided to endorse Jenny McCarthy and her anti-vax nonsense. Thanks for the post, Shirley – here’s hoping she reconsiders!
Slate has an excellent article out titled Say It Ain’t So, O, which takes on Oprah’s support of celebrity vaccine denialist Jenny McCarthy, she of Playboy Playmate fame and absolutely no medical credentials whatsoever. (The one thing Slate gets wrong is calling McCarthy a “skeptic” - see the difference between a true skeptic and a denialist [...]