Monday, November 9, 2009

Looks Like You're Not Going To Hell

You remember Desiree Jennings?

She was aspiring NFL cheerleader who was crippled by dystonia after she got a flu shot? Well, it turns out that her condition is most likely psychogenic, and has nothing to do with a flu shot whatsoever. Now she’s going through a “miraculous” recovery at the hands of a quack doctor who has in the past injected his patients with urine. Sez Warming Glow:

It’s all covered in this Respectful Insolence blog post in such thorough detail that I don’t even know what I could possibly pull as a blockquote to sum it up quickly. But long story short: stupid people — in this case, the practitioners and adherents of pseudo-science or those who fear medical vaccines — win again. They always win. (See also: Jeff Dunham’s success.)

But if there’s a silver lining here (besides Desiree recovering, that is), it’s that we can finally laugh at her Inside Edition story set to “
Walk it Out” completely free of guilt. It’s the little victories.

Will this quiet the Jenny McCarthys and Suzanne Sommers of the anti-medicine quack remedy world? Not quite, but it's a start.

1 comment:

Joshua DeWald said...

I went a little insane last week after someone made some anti-vaccination claims, here was my response:

http://quay.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/a-response-to-some-vaccination-concerns/

It's great to see that you're also one of the Good Guys =)

SGU's Stephen Novella talked about this exact thing today