{"id":842,"date":"2008-06-05T20:18:19","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T02:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=842"},"modified":"2008-06-05T20:18:19","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T02:18:19","slug":"green-our-idiocy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=842","title":{"rendered":"Green Our Idiocy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve posted enough on the anti-vaccination idiots over at Right Thinking. So I’ll link here<\/a> to one of Orac’s latest posts on their nutbaggery.<\/p>\n

You know who I feel sorry for? The deluded parents of kids with autism. Late-onset autism is a terrible thing and devastating to parents. They are desperate to find an explanation — just as people with cancer are. In come this anti-science anti-industry scare-mongering luddites. They throw them a rope — it’s vaccines<\/i> that ruined your kid’s life. And parents, being parents, grab onto it desperately. They embrace what is, let’s be honest, a far left agenda that blames greedy corporate interests for the “epidemic” of autism. They sell themselves to political opportunists.<\/p>\n

I can’t blame the parents. They’re the victims. But I can blame the pseudo-scientists and political advocates who are milking others’ misfortune for fame, fortune and a sense of self worth. What does it tell you that the leading spokeswoman for the “Green our Vaccines” garbage is a dim bulb celebrity whose fame and fortune is fading in direction proportion to the sinking of her bustline?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve posted enough on the anti-vaccination idiots over at Right Thinking. So I’ll link here to one of Orac’s latest posts on their nutbaggery. You know who I feel sorry for? The deluded parents of kids with autism. Late-onset autism is a terrible thing and devastating to parents. They are desperate to find an explanation … Continue reading Green Our Idiocy<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-dA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}