In case you missed Newsweek’s brilliant “Why Health Advice on ‘Oprah’ Could Make You Sick” article last month, here’s an excerpt:

In 2007, Oprah invited Jenny McCarthy, the Playboy model and actress, to describe her struggle to find help for her young son. When he was 2½, Evan suffered a series of seizures. A neurologist told McCarthy he was autistic. “So what do you think triggered the autism?” Oprah asked McCarthy. “I know you have a theory.”

McCarthy is certain that her son contracted autism from the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination he received as a baby. She told Oprah that the morning he went in for his checkup, her instincts told her not to allow the doctor to give him the vaccine. “I said to the doctor, I have a very bad feeling about this shot. This is the autism shot, isn’t it? And he said no, that is ridiculous; it is a mother’s desperate attempt to blame something on autism. And he swore at me.” The nurse gave Evan the shot. “And not soon thereafter,” McCarthy said, “boom, soul gone from his eyes.”

Read the rest of the article here. Good for Newsweek to call out Oprah on these issues. Next to the Glenn Beck program on Fox News, this is the epitome of ignorant brainwashing. What the heck happened to Oprah?

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Courtesy of Roger Ebert’s Journal:

Darwin’s Theory has been much developed and improved by countless scientists over the years, most dramatically since the discovery of DNA–which Darwin knew nothing about, but which uncannily supported his theory and revealed the mechanism by which it works. The Theory has been called “the best theory in the history of science.” Intelligent Design, on the other hand, has been described as a pseudoscience and Creationism in Science’s clothing. A federal court decision declared it a subterfuge to smuggle a religious belief into tax-supported schools.

Read the rest of his fascinating blog post here.

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Courtesy of Chicago Sun-Times:

I’ve been accused of refusing to review Ben Stein’s documentary “Expelled,” a defense of Creationism, because of my belief in the theory of evolution. Here is my response.

Ben Stein, you hosted a TV show on which you gave away money. Imagine that I have created a special edition of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” just for you. Ben, you’ve answered all the earlier questions correctly, and now you’re up for the $1 million prize. It involves an explanation for the evolution of life on this planet. You have already exercised your option to throw away two of the wrong answers. Now you are faced with two choices: (A) Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, or (B) Intelligent Design.

Read the rest here.

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