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