Orac (aka Mastcell, Mr Woo, David H. Gorski, MD, PhD, Skeptics' Circle)
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[If you wondered what medical men appear to have the MKUltra stamp on them (ref) then this one fits the bill alongside Paul (100,000) Offit (it is telling that he and Kathleen Seidel even dragged Springmeier's book out of Internet Archive).  Dr Gorski's main argument against whale documents is an ad hominem logical fallacy called Appeal to incredulity, that he calls Scopie's Law, named after a Pharma gang member Rich Scopi:  In any discussion involving science or medicine, citing Whale.to as a credible source loses you the argument immediately.....and gets you laughed out of the room.  Pharma boys have to laugh at medical truth, or it would send them mad, just like Don Juan advised to laugh at the Unknown for the same reason.  A good example of the weakness in academic intelligence.  The word sophomoric fits the bill here and (to paraphrase Shaw) he is well suited to a career in medical politics.  Works with Novella in spewing out Allopathic propaganda.
     He moderates postings and wont allow any that expose vaccination completely eg the piece by Gary Goldman and Dr King.  No surprise there.  Works with Novella at Science-Based Medicine, another font of Allopathic propaganda.]

"In the entire history of man, no one has ever been brainwashed and realized, or believed, that he had been brainwashed. Those who have been brainwashed will usually passionately defend their manipulators." ---- Dick Sutphen

Blogs: Respectful Insolence  http://skepticscircle.blogspot.com/ Science-Based Medicine

[Aug 2008] Dr. Jay Gordon Responds to Dr. David Gorski and the Anons

[may 2008] DAVID GORSKI, M.D.: THE WORLDWIDE WANKER OF "WOO" By J.B. Handley

"Haven't read this piece, but wanted to add that David Gorski (who for years hid behind "Orac" ... is a very active participant on Wikipedia, the Healthfraud List, the Snake oil Vigilante Brigade ... while being a recipient of money from the DOD. He has several pro-vacccination industry blogs ... and haunted Usenet for years tho prefers arenas where their is censorship in his favour."---Ilena Rosenthal

Appeal to incredulity example:  The nuttiness that is Whale.to: Save Scopie's Law!

See: Anne's Anti-Quackery & Science Blog   Neurodiversity  Tara Smith Rationalization 

Blog posts

[April 2008] Key realities about autism, vaccines, vaccine-injury compensation, Thimerosal, and autism-related research. Medical Veritas 2008 April; 5(1): 1610-1644, with Gary S. Goldman. The propaganda dispensed by Public health care and vaccine apologists is, at best, a weak attempt to rationalize the healthcare establishment’s positions using all the tools of doublespeak or, as George Orwell’s called it in his book 1984, “newspeak”, to: (a) mislead, (b) distort reality, (c) pretend to communicate, (d) make the bad seem good, (e) avoid and/or shift responsibility, (f) make the negative appear positive, (g) create a false verbal map of the world, and (h) create dissonance between reality and what their narrative said or did not say.
    Such propaganda often relies on half-truths and/or superficially logical, but foundationally flawed, phrasing. However, this propaganda is fundamentally flawed and based on pseudo-science or non-reviewable statistical studies of medical records, where, contrary to ethical science, the study design, data selection/rejection criteria, exact approach used to evaluate the data, and/or the original data itself are kept confidential making independent evaluation/verification of the published findings impossible.

Orac & Co Allopathic propaganda:
[A logical fallacy here, hardly an example of  critical thinking skills!] "Whale.to is one of the biggest repositories of altie woo, pseudoscience, conspiracy mongering, and New Age nonsense you'll ever be able to find anywhere. Anyone who uncritically cites anything from Whale.to as evidence to bolster his position clearly has a problem with critical thinking skills."--Orac

[2009 Jan. For the record.  They brainwashed him real good.] "The thimerosal hypothesis of autism is dead, dead, dead! This hypothesis is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If the mercury militia wouldn't keep nailing it to the perch it'd be pushing up the daisies! Its metabolic processes are now history! It's off the twig! It's kicked the bucket, it's shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! The thimerosal/mercury/autism hypothesis IS AN EX-HYPOTHESIS!!" http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2009/01/the_first_of_i_hope_many_very_bad_days_f.php#more

Jenny McCarthy repeated that question (or variants thereof) multiple times in her interview, while piously proclaiming herself "antitoxin" not "antivaccine" and demanding that the CDC "get all the toxins" out of the vaccines. Her protestations otherwise, McCarthy had latched on to a favorite antivaccination trope that is trotted out with some regularity to try to scare parents. This is why, even now that thimerosal has been removed from childhood vaccines other than the flu vaccine, I have no illusions that antivaccinationists will be mollified for one instant......Of course, nearly all of these comparisons fail to acknowledge that time-honored pharmacological principle that "the dose makes the poison"  ref

[Nice he admits they are just full of poisons!] I'd love to get an antivaccinationist like Jenny McCarthy who makes the claim that she is not "antivaccine" but "antitoxin" or "pro-vaccine safety" into a discussion and ask her this hypothetical question: If formaldehyde, "antifreeze," aluminum, thimerosal, and every chemical in vaccines circulating in all those lists on antivaccination websites that so scare you were somehow absolutely removed from the standard childhood vaccines so that not a single molecular remained (just like homeopathy), would you then vaccinate your child? The only thing that would remain is buffered salt water and the necessary antigens, be they killed virus or bacterial proteins, or whatever. ref

Another State Promotes the Pseudoscientific Cult that is “Naturopathic Medicine.” Part 1
Another State Promotes the Pseudoscientific Cult that is “Naturopathic Medicine.” Part 2
Chiropractic and Stroke
The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons: Ideology trumps science-based medicine
Why the latest Geier & Geier paper is not evidence that mercury in vaccines causes autism
Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey, and “Green Our Vaccines”: Anti-vaccine, not “pro-safe vaccine”
Monkey business in autism research