You Can Believe What You Want To Believe

Well now, let's not mince words:

"The doctor at the centre of the MMR vaccine controversy has been struck off after being accused of ‘callously disregarding’ vulnerable children.

Andrew Wakefield, 53, whose research claimed there was a link between autism and the measles, mumps and rubella jab, was yesterday branded dishonest, misleading and irresponsible by the General Medical Council.

He has been banned from practising in Britain after being found guilty of more than 30 charges of serious professional misconduct.

In the longest, most expensive hearing in its 148-year history, the GMC accused the doctor of ‘bringing the medical profession into disrepute’.

The five-strong panel, which began its investigation in July 2007, concluded Dr Wakefield had behaved unethically and ‘abused his position of trust as a medical practitioner’."

So much for the "science" holding up Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey.

Or rather, Jenny McCarthy.

I forgot she and Jim broke up.

It just got too crazy.

Awww, so sad.

That also means NewAgers, like Suzanne Somers and Oprah Winfrey, take another hit in Ye Ol' Credibility Dept. as well.

Whoda thunk it, huh?

And let's not forget when Chiropractic was put through it's paces:

"A respected science writer yesterday won his gruelling libel battle over the right to criticise what he calls 'bogus' science.

The British Chiropractic Association has dropped its defamation case against Dr Simon Singh  -  who has spent £200,000 fighting the legal action and says he has been put through 'two years of hell'.

Campaigners hailed it as a victory for freedom of speech."

Which was right around the same time homeopathy, appropriately enough, was laughed out of it's own hearing:

"It's hard to say which is more ridiculous: the sight of a grown man speaking this nonsense, or the fact that after 200 years homeopaths apparenly haven't bothered to 'fully investigate' how much shaking is required for their remedies to work. And yet, bizarrely, these people expect to be taken seriously.

In this they have failed spectacularly. The select committee report has brutally inflicted the 21st, 20th and 19th centuries on this 18th century magic ritual, and under inspection it has fallen apart."

Meanwhile, Salon.com's Joan Walsh is, kinda sorta, sorry she said something, kinda sorta, saying:

"I'm coming to regret using the term 'racist' about the Tea Party."

Say it ain't so! And I'm finding it's becoming easier and easier to find other women are, finally, standing up and screaming:

"Why!? Why!? This is your fault! Take responsibility, you crazy woman! Why!?"

That was totally unheard of just a few years ago. But you really can't beat this great quote from our friends at Greenpeace:

"Legitimacy has shifted to the side of the climate skeptics, and that is a big, big problem."

Yea, yea, "big problem".

Tell me, my cultish compadre - do you get the feeling something's been lost?

"Italian police reportedly unearthed hidden dossiers on 'enemies' during a raid on Church of Scientology offices in Turin.

The files, apparently discovered behind locked doors in a basement office, allegedly contained personal information on judges, police officers and journalists identified as hostile to the Church.

Details on former Church members who have turned against Scientology were also reportedly recovered from handwritten files and computer records seized following a nine-hour search of the premises."

Like people might be putting your cons together, and maybe catching on?

"Jim Jones was a power player in Bay Area politics and thereby a player in national Democratic Party politics. Local politicians and activists benefited from the slave labor that he could provide on little notice to people political rallies and hand out campaign literature. In gratitude, Moscone appointed him chairman of San Francisco’s housing authority and Willie Brown likened Jones, a man who would eventually kill more African-Americans than any Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard, to Martin Luther King, Jr. First lady Rosalyn Carter and her husband’s running mate, Walter Mondale, both met with the cult leader. Jones even appropriated the title of Huey Newton’s book, Revolutionary Suicide, to describe the extermination of his flock (which included several of Newton’s relatives). Once Jonestown’s residents had performed this 'revolutionary suicide,' the wills left behind bequeathed all to the Soviet Union."

You know, seeing the world as it is?

"He was the original guru pop star. Made famous by the Beatles in the 1960s, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was the godfather of the Transcendental Meditation movement, known as TM. He inspired such acolytes as author Deepak Chopra and filmmaker David Lynch, and remained TM’s figurehead until his death in 2008 at the age of 94. The Maharishi was once dubbed 'the giggling guru.' But now it appears he may have been giggling all the way to the bank. David Wants to Fly, a new documentary shown last week at Toronto’s Hot Docs festival, offers compelling evidence that the Maharishi’s empire of enlightenment is more devoted to shaking down its followers and amassing wealth than transcending the material world."

Some are certainly starting to talking like it:

"Even though the Constitution does not include the words 'separation of church and state,' liberals have long treated that concept as a hallowed fundamental doctrine of constitutional law. But no more. With the recent introduction of new Senate cap and trade legislation, ultraliberal supporters Barbara Boxer, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama and others have now completely abandoned that doctrine in their quest to establish global warming dogma as the official, established religion of the United States."

But is anybody else paying attention out there?

I mean, really, this is HUGE:

I'm reversing the trajectory of the planet - with my mind!