Daring to Doubt Vaccine Efficacy

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Monday October 19, 2009 · 2:25 PM PDT

2009/10/19 · 14:25

Professional skeptic and media rabblerouser, Bill Maher, willfully engaged the taboo this week when he expressed his doubts about the Swine Flu vaccine. Not surprisingly, his panelists reacted as if he suggested they eat a small child, live on set.

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How Confident Do You Feel in Flu Vaccines?

201 votes Vote Now!

How Confident Do You Feel in Flu Vaccines?

Plunge It Into Me, Doc

131 votes

What's In that Vial Again?

28 votes

What Happened to Vitamin C?

20 votes

Just a Tinfoil Hat For me, Thanks.

22 votes

Dollar Tanking; Recovery Fictional

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Friday October 16, 2009 · 1:41 PM PDT

2009/10/16 · 13:41

Favored populist economic hyperbolist Max Keiser was in top form this morning on France 24's Face Off with Robert Parsons.

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Saturday October 10, 2009 · 1:26 PM PDT

2009/10/10 · 13:26

Here is our take on the Obama Nobel Peace Prize Award.

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Monday October 05, 2009 · 2:40 PM PDT

2009/10/05 · 14:40

Today, Britain's Daily Mail Online gave us a glimpse of a possible future distopian solution to unemployment.

Internet Eyes is "a worldwide online instant event notification system utilizing video feed to notify the owner of the feed (customer) that an event is occurring."

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Wednesday September 30, 2009 · 1:22 PM PDT

2009/09/30 · 13:22

Looking for a way to perk up your work week? Why not update yourself on the impending enviropocalypse?

According to an exhaustive study by the Global Footprint Network, September 25th was the day that the planet used all of the available planetary resources that it could replenish in a year (otherwise known as Earth Overshoot Day). For the rest of the year, we'll be culling, reaping, and utilizing that which won't grow back.

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Thursday September 24, 2009 · 11:41 AM PDT

2009/09/24 · 11:41

Digg.com is one of the largest websites on the planet. Like many of its competitors in the social media arena, it doesn't purport to create or provide anything of substance. Digg's value comes in the community that it organizes and speaks for. In Digg's case, that community's function is to vote for the most worthy news stories of the day for more casual visitors to consume.

With the announcement of some prospective changes to its voting rules, is Digg capitulating to big money interests? Or has its slow march to corruption already rendered its original mission moot?

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Tuesday September 15, 2009 · 6:24 PM PDT

2009/09/15 · 18:24

Faced with the prospect of becoming the most popular weekend pastime in the United States, the National Football League is taking drastic steps to withdraw from public view.

As reported by Time Magazine last week, the NFL has adopted a "blackout" policy, preventing local fans from viewing their team's games if the game in question fails to sell out its tickets.

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Thursday September 10, 2009 · 3:48 AM PDT

2009/09/10 · 03:48

I would be stunned beyond belief if this were the first and only entry into the inevitable "Obama Outburst Meme," but honestly, I couldn't help myself after seeing this clip as the lead story on both FoxNews and HuffPo. Enjoy:

Looking forward to seeing future permutations in my e-mailbox tomorrow.

The Golden Age of Placebo

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Thursday September 03, 2009 · 3:24 PM PDT

2009/09/03 · 15:24

As the nation's health care debate/debacle (debatecle?) crescendos into to a high-pitched whine, one champion's advances threaten to trump all the efforts of the medical community, pharmaceutical industry, and lobbying covens. And this champion, this potential savior, is an unlabeled, off-brand, non-invasive, patent-free, discount store sugar pill.

According to Wired magazine, placebo effects have dramatically increased over the past few years, making it monumentally tough to get new drugs approved by the FDA.

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What is your favorite placebo?

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What is your favorite placebo?

A glass of warm milk

0 votes

Nymph Vomit

2 votes

Prozac

1 vote

The voice of Orson Welles

0 votes

Extract of Ridiculous

5 votes

ESPN's Sportscenter

0 votes

Other (write ins welcome)

3 votes

Arnie's Apocalypse

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Wednesday July 15, 2009 · 3:38 PM PDT

2009/07/15 · 15:38

It's Arnie's world and the rest of us are just living in it. The San Diego Union Tribune is reporting that California is on the precipice of mandating that debtor institutions accept its IOUs as payment.

While this would nominally allow California to stave off impending fiscal doom, the ramifications of doing so are fantastically interesting.

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What should CA name its new currency?

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What should CA name its new currency?

The Fornia

9 votes

The Arnie Buck

22 votes

The Hoover Napkin

8 votes

The Faux

7 votes

The Hilton

1 vote

(Write ins Welcome)

3 votes

LSD Inventor Corresponds with Steve Jobs

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Monday July 13, 2009 · 3:16 PM PDT

2009/07/13 · 15:16

Last week, the Huff Post published a heretofore little known letter sent from 101-year old LSD developer Albert Hofmann (who passed last year at 102) to Captain of Industry, Steve Jobs. The letter referenced Jobs' well known affinity for psychedelics and requested support for the first medicinal study of LSD in over 35 years.

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Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.

60 votes Vote Now!

Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.

The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

6 votes

All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.

10 votes

Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.

12 votes

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

9 votes

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

23 votes

Teddy Bears Resort to Life of Crime

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Tuesday July 07, 2009 · 1:34 PM PDT

2009/07/07 · 13:34

DEA agents and New York City’s finest were shocked last weekend to find yet another segment of society corrupted by the War on Drugs — Teddy Bears. In a raid on a Bronx safehouse, police and federal agents uncovered over 44 lbs of heroin and href="50,000 in cash trafficked by the customizable bedtime friends known as Build-A-Bears.

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Which Teddy Would be Most Apalled by this Story?

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Which Teddy Would be Most Apalled by this Story?

Pooh

21 votes

Ruxpin

4 votes

Berinstein

5 votes

Roosevelt

11 votes

The Off-Brand Bear in a Three Piece Suit Who Cycles Through Motivational Messages

7 votes

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