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Badly Shaved Monkey

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Badly Shaved Monkey
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We've not done this for a while, bu the prize goes to Sheri Nakken at OtherHealth;

http://www.otherhealth.com/showthread.php?p=64100

She has fearlessly swallowed every piece of conspiracy theory and paranoid nonsense in medicine and washed it down with a good dose of magically enhanced water.

We salute you Sheri as a perfect example of the rule that states- if you really believe one stupid thing there is nothing holding you back from believing a hundred.
 
Wow. I was just waiting for the homoeopaths to get onto this bandwagon. I mean it's got the lot. Potential to run a huge anti-vax campaign, and potential to corner lots of frightened people who might not have a huge amount of help from real medicine on this one. How soon before we hear about the great success of homoeopathy in the typhoid epidemic of 18-dot, and various wildly differing suggestions for the genus epidemicus?

Or should they play the denial card, and denounce the epidemiologists as scare-mongers? So hard to know which way to jump!

I don't like the way this is escalating into a full-blown scare-story (mainly because I see the effect on elderly people, some of whom are becoming despondent, convinced that they're bound to die of bird flu this year or next, based on the tenor of some of the reports). I mean, suppose it's all true, what can individuals possibly do about it anyway? On the other hand it's genuine news and ought not to be suppressed. But whichever way you slice it, Sheri is just a hoot.

Sorry, not meaning to hijack this, there are plenty threads to debate whether or not a panic is justified, let's keep this one for observing the homoeopaths' reaction to the situation.

Rolfe.
 
The Tyson Chicken company wanted her to move to China???

I bet those conniving Reptoids had something to do with it.
 
"Greece and a few other countries which did not accept the vaccines were the only ones which were not hit by the flu. Doesn't that prove something?"

Vaccination induced flu is not infectious across borders?

Don't trust Greeks bearing gifts from pharmaceutical companies?

I dunno , Sheri. What DOES that prove?
 
Oh yay. The link to "redflags" is telltale as well.

1. Are we sure that is what killed them? Did they really test these people?
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Uhhhhhhhhh...

Yeah...we just pretend that people were killed by h5n1. We don't try to verify it, never ever, nuh uh.

Bwahhhhhaaaa! My hubby's name is Tyson.
 
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Soapy Sam said:
"Greece and a few other countries which did not accept the vaccines were the only ones which were not hit by the flu. Doesn't that prove something?"
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Whoops! Greece just confirmed the first case of H5N1 in the European Union! (I've made too few posts to link, but just Google it.)
Maybe it does prove something...
 
I thought birds flew SOUTH in the winter. Does bird flew screw up their sense of direction? Why are these loons headed WEST?
 
It just occurred to me to wonder whether any Creationists (and I include ID proponents among that number) are concerned about H5N1. After all, if evolution is "only a theory," the virus shouldn't be able to mutate into a form which can be spread from human to human, right?
 
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Migratory patterns and affected areas.
 
Euromutt said:
It just occurred to me to wonder whether any Creationists (and I include ID proponents among that number) are concerned about H5N1. After all, if evolution is "only a theory," the virus shouldn't be able to mutate into a form which can be spread from human to human, right?
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They more have a problem with macroevolution. ID proponents say ID is vital to macroevolution. YEC proponents will embrace microevolution, and maybe macroevolution if ID is the "cause".
 
Soapy Sam said:
I thought birds flew SOUTH in the winter. Does bird flew screw up their sense of direction? Why are these loons headed WEST?
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According to the Daily Mail it is because they are Eastern European scroungers who are flying to Britain to get free treatment on the NHS.

It is only freeloading birds who have already managed to sneak into our country who fly South, using taxpayer's money to pay for winter holidays for them and their numerous illegitimate chicks.

Meanwhile, our own plucky pensioner ducks freeze to death on underfunded council lakes, while gangs of loutish tearaway geese hang around on street corners being counselled by lesbian swans.

I'm voting RSPB next time around :mad:
 
Euromutt said:
It just occurred to me to wonder whether any Creationists (and I include ID proponents among that number) are concerned about H5N1. After all, if evolution is "only a theory," the virus shouldn't be able to mutate into a form which can be spread from human to human, right?
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"Yeah, but it's still just a virus."

Seems that a prominant IDist by the name of Luskin posted an article on this subject here: Avian Flu: An Example of Evolution?*. Needless to say, it was full of errors. Tara Smith responded at her Aetiology blog here: Intelligently designed avian flu?. And of course, the guys at The Panda's Thumb discuss it here.

* - link not working for me at this time.
 
She's selling a book too. She claims to be an MD. The terminology on the site suggests otherwise.
 
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Euromutt said:
It just occurred to me to wonder whether any Creationists (and I include ID proponents among that number) are concerned about H5N1. After all, if evolution is "only a theory," the virus shouldn't be able to mutate into a form which can be spread from human to human, right?
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Any evolutionary change which has been observed is dismissed as "microevolution". Any change which has yet to be observed is labeled "macroevolution" and asserted to be impossible.

We could verify such a mutation... therefore, it's only "microevolution". So sayeth the Creationists.
 
I see the woos have now settled on panicking that they are more afraid of the vaccine than of the disease. And decided that when a really virulent strain of the virus emerges, this will be because of the vaccine.

Oh yes, and homoeopaths lost virtually none of their patients during the 1919 flu epidemic. With no documentary evidence to back up that quote why am I not surprised.

Rolfe.
 
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