I'm sorry. I couldn't help it. I simply viewed it as my barometer for how scientifically accurate the Dateline show would be. Couldn't watch it myself because I had my lovely, wonderful in-laws over for dinner.
And thus it came to pass that I was so so so so very much hoping that the folks over at Age of Autism would be unhappy with the Dateline NBC story on autism and its various players. And they are! Sure, I've got a wee smidge of schadenfreude. But that's why God made vodka--for drowning one's wee smidge of schadenfreude in the precious distillations of the potato. Cheers!
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I'll join you in the toast to our friends over thar with a glass of red wine.
Glad to know I'm not the only one. I didn't watch it as well, so the ten minutes on Friday, and didn't think I could handle any more of the crap that the medical community and parents of autism were divided. Not true, not all parents of kids with autism think Wakefield walks on water. Some of us think he's bad if not worse than Age of Autism, so yeah, I'll admit to some schadenfreude as well. And a fierce grin on my face, too. So many lies over there it pisses me off. And parents justifying the death threats against Offit. Not acceptable. At all.
I wonder how many centuries it took before holdouts continued to claim that the world was flat? Something tells me that we are going to be watching this pointless debate go on for a long, long time.
I didn't get to watch it on Sunday night so I blogged about it instead here -- one of my old-style link roundups.
Wakefield is one smug, slimy battard. Lauer didn't drill into Wakefield's financial and ethical...well lapses is too gentle...at ALL.
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