"Let's talk about another part of the left Web: Huffington Post. HuffPo is certainly 'new media,' supports a wide range of progressive and liberal causes, is on the Daily Kos's selective blogroll, and is a pernicious source of medical misinformation. At HuffPo, that takes the form of anti-vaccination tropes and the occasional support for homeopathy. HuffPo staff have been demonstrably sympathetic to those causes, and the responses to pro-hard-science counterpostings are ... well, they aren't so pretty. Daily Kos must not follow that road. This community has embraced the banner of 'reality-based' with pride. So here's reality,...claims of a medical conspiracy, of insurance companies engaged in self-defeating suppression of cheap 'cures' to keep patients suffering ... is quackery. It's the first step down the road that ruined science journalism at the Huffington Post."-- Serpents Choice, standing with the skeptics - and exhibiting a level of rationality that's positively shocking - because (based on past performance) neither could be expected from The Daily Kos.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
We're Stunned. We Can't Move: We're Stunned.
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