Get it, people?

People don't “believe” vaccines are safe. They are confident that the current scientific understanding is trustworthy, and that paranoid theories are far less trustworthy. Is that irrational? If real scientific evidence ever suggests that vaccines are less safe than the diseases they prevent, then rational people will demand change, but they won't give Jenny McCarthy and Mr Whoever and yourself credit for just happening to have been right. We're all worse off for listening to conspiracy theorists, whether they happen to get one right or not.

People don’t “believe” vaccines are safe. They are confident that the current scientific understanding is trustworthy, and that paranoid theories are far less trustworthy. Is that irrational? If real scientific evidence ever suggests that vaccines are less safe than the diseases they prevent, then rational people will demand change, but they won’t give Jenny McCarthy and Mr Whoever and yourself credit for just happening to have been right. We’re all worse off for listening to conspiracy theorists, whether they happen to get one right or not.

All I said was I didn't agree with Ventura completely, not that I don't have my own doubts about what happened on 9/11. And I had ample opportunity to explore that, by editing Jim Marrs' “The Terror Conspiracy” which is published by Disinformation, and still continue to do my own research on the topic.

The point of this post is that the Huffington Post's availed policy of prohibiting “conspiracy theory” makes no sense, since Jenny McCarthy's opinion obviously falls into that category. And I take oman28's point that she may be a public face for the anti-vaccination movement because she is not a great representative for it.

It's a response like that is why I wanted to post this.

And instead of just linking to the Ventura post on InfoWars, I plan to post it on disinfo.com later tonight. We, at Disinformation, had the chance to interview Ventura tonight (look for that post soon) and, no surprise, he wasn't too happy about his post being pulled off Huffington Post.

A one-two punch in this post. First, poopooing the 9/11 truth movement (”Even if you disagree with Ventura’s claims on 9/11 (and I am in that camp)”), and then making fun of McCarthy and by extension the anti-vaccine movement.

A one-two punch in this post. First, poopooing the 9/11 truth movement (”Even if you disagree with Ventura’s claims on 9/11 (and I am in that camp)”), and then making fun of McCarthy and by extension the anti-vaccine movement.