Why I get Annoyed with Bad Science

As my anthropology friends know, I went on many a rant on the "I am not going to vaccinate my kid because that will give him autism" crowd. These are usually the same folks who believe that hospital birthings are bad and you should only have "natural" home child birth, though anyone who has taken any human physiology will tell you, the fact that the human head is so large that the baby has to be manually rotated out of the birth canal, unlike any other mammal, makes our birthing process incredibly difficult.

Anyway, I was reading the Tribune this morning and I read this: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-autism-doctor-eisenstein-may22,0,3826791.story

Junk science makes bad medicine. All the "alternative therapies" in the world don't save and extend the millions and millions of lives of scientific "Western" medicine. Maybe it's because Arianna was born a blue baby and would have been a dead baby with a home birth that I take this so personally, but to all of you brainwashed by the far-too-many quacks and charlatans out there, just pause and think about what agenda are those people pushing.

- Mike