Wakefield's Legacy

Despite the fact that Andrew Wakefield's findings correlating autism and vaccination have been completely disproven, he retains supporters, shamefully including celebrities who should be better informed and do public retractions of their advocacy of this nonsense.


This reinforces my belief that there is no stronger force in the universe, including the black hole at the center of our galaxy, than the human will to belief in the face of all evidence to the contrary. Man is not the rational animal, he is the rationalizing animal.

And what is Wakefield's legacy? Dead children.

Well, that's reassuring

In his introductory remarks to his SCOTUS nomination today , the COOTWH stated that she represents what we need, less of the dry dead old law on paper, and more concern for people in their everyday lives. I thought I already had somebody like that......my Representative.

I cannot for a moment believe that a law professor / factotum, sans judicial experience, is even going to be able to be concerned about the everyday lives of people, let alone conceive that that is her job. The Constitution gives broad legislative powers to Congress, and the 435 districts into which the House of Representatives is divided is crafted and specifically intended to see to my "needs."

Yet another example of rhetoric that is either simply BAD, or which has intentions which are far more than questionable, given that we are presently visited with far, far too much legislation by judicial fiat.