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HTTP/2 301 server: nginx date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:54:22 GMT content-type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8 location: https://rationaleyes.wordpress.com/comments/feed/ x-hacker: Want root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header. host-header: WordPress.com link: ; rel="https://api.w.org/" vary: accept, content-type, cookie last-modified: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:34:26 GMT etag: "7490923d93e87ce59a7689de01bbfeca" x-redirect-by: WordPress x-ac: 3.bom _dca MISS alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=bom, cache;desc=MISS;dur=364.0 HTTP/2 200 server: nginx date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:54:22 GMT content-type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8 vary: Accept-Encoding x-hacker: Want root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header. host-header: WordPress.com link: ; rel="https://api.w.org/" vary: accept, content-type, cookie last-modified: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:34:26 GMT etag: W/"7490923d93e87ce59a7689de01bbfeca" content-encoding: gzip x-ac: 3.bom _dca MISS alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=bom, cache;desc=MISS;dur=362.0 Comments for RationalEyes https://rationaleyes.wordpress.com Thoughts on reason, rationalism, humanism, and science Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:34:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.com/ Comment on As The World Turns (Into Irrational Fearmongers) by judy griffith https://rationaleyes.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/as-the-world-turns-into-irrational-fearmongers/#comment-151 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:34:26 +0000 https://rationaleyes.org/2008/03/17/as-the-world-turns-into-irrational-fearmongers/#comment-151 I am71years, started watching ATWT since I was in grammee school . It is the only soap I watch, I hope you will change your mind. thank you

]]> Comment on About by RationalEyes https://rationaleyes.wordpress.com/about/#comment-45 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:17:35 +0000 #comment-45 In reply to brucehood.

Thanks. I look forward to reading your book.

]]> Comment on About by brucehood https://rationaleyes.wordpress.com/about/#comment-44 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:42:43 +0000 #comment-44 I thought you might appreciate looking at this book when it comes out in April.

Books

No matter whether you are a believer or a skeptic, it has something really important to say from the world of child development about the origins of adult belief.

Best

Bruce

]]> Comment on Dangerous Decision – A travesty of justice and the woeful ineptitude of the media by aynnie https://rationaleyes.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/dangerous-decision-a-travesty-of-justice-and-the-woeful-ineptitude-of-the-media/#comment-30 Tue, 06 May 2008 11:30:43 +0000 https://rationaleyes.org/?p=42#comment-30 Wow! How on earth did you get your hands on the affadavit? Is it even legal to post it?

]]> Comment on Dangerous Decision – A travesty of justice and the woeful ineptitude of the media by RationalEyes https://rationaleyes.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/dangerous-decision-a-travesty-of-justice-and-the-woeful-ineptitude-of-the-media/#comment-29 Tue, 06 May 2008 03:18:00 +0000 https://rationaleyes.org/?p=42#comment-29 Cole Joplin: I don’t even know where to begin to respond to your comments. I’m not sure what you mean by there being “too many autistic children and parents to ostrasize [sic].” And who is ostracizing anyway? And, I beg to differ, epidemiology is most definitely a science. Nevertheless, there are reams and reams of scientific papers failing to support any vaccine-autism linkage, but nary a reliable study in support. Although you will likely fail to accept this fact, science is not capable of proving a negative – we can never say with certainty that vaccines are not a cause of autism. We can, however, state that given the best available evidence (and there is now plenty), vaccines have not been shown to be a cause of autism, or that they are highly unlikely to be a cause. You say that I “couldn’t even muster up enough scientific curiosity to call for a medical answer to settle the issue.” I haven’t a clue what you are talking about, but I find it ironic that you even invoke the word “science” in your diatribe.

nhokkanen: The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) sprung from the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), and
the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (the Court) all play a role in adjudicating vaccine claims. As I mentioned in my post, the Poling case was to be one of 6 test cases under the Vaccine Omnibus Proceedings, but it was inexplicably pulled and quickly settled. I would indeed be curious to read the “thousands of documents those scientists examined.” Do you mean the documents that showed that the vaccines this child received caused her autism?You say I should “talk with some vaccine injury victims and vaccine researchers.” I’ve spoken with many researchers and scientists. How many do you believe hold the view that vaccines are a cause of autism?

]]> Comment on Dangerous Decision – A travesty of justice and the woeful ineptitude of the media by nhokkanen https://rationaleyes.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/dangerous-decision-a-travesty-of-justice-and-the-woeful-ineptitude-of-the-media/#comment-28 Tue, 06 May 2008 00:24:55 +0000 https://rationaleyes.org/?p=42#comment-28 DHHS conceded the Poling case — not the Vaccine Court. Before you passed judgement, you should have read the thousands of documents those scientists examined.

Also rethink your cavalier attitude toward children and adults injured by vaccines. They deserve acknowledgement, care, and restitution… qualities found far more readily when replacing a bad tire than from the so-called “caring professions.”

Vaccine benefits and vaccine injuries are not mutually exclusive. Until the CDC provides better care for people injured by vaccines, and learns how to prevent vaccine injuries, people will rightly be skeptical of what appears to be a one-size-fits-all profit juggernaut.

Skimming a few documents does not an expert make. Take a few years, talk with some vaccine injury victims and vaccine researchers. Online posturing is immediately rendered meaningless.

Two days ago a man showed me his typewritten doctors’ notes from the early 1970s — encephalopaphy immediately following his measles vaccination. You see the needle and the damage done, and you have to accept the paradox that a product intended to improve health is having the opposite effect in some people.

It should not take decades to find out why, and make it stop. These vaccine-injured people should not be written off as collateral damage in the war on disease.

How do we improve vaccination rates? Improve the product.

]]> Comment on Dangerous Decision – A travesty of justice and the woeful ineptitude of the media by Cole Joplin https://rationaleyes.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/dangerous-decision-a-travesty-of-justice-and-the-woeful-ineptitude-of-the-media/#comment-27 Mon, 05 May 2008 20:25:19 +0000 https://rationaleyes.org/?p=42#comment-27 I would not confuse frenzy from critical mass, which is the first reason why this controversy is not going away. It hasn’t even begun yet. There are simply too many autistic children and parents to ostrasize. The status quo of blissful ignorance to the causes of autism simply can’t be sustained.

The second reason is that epidemiology is not science fact. It is theory. The so-called proof that there is no vaccine-autism link is based entirely on epidemiology alone. It was epidemiology in the fifties that suggested that “refrigerator moms” were the cause of autism. We had decades of epidemiology-based studies proving that cigarettes did not cause lung cancer.

It took decades of laboratory testing to prove otherwise. Columbia University did a study with lab rats, and found a definite link between autism and vaccines. If you question their findings, prove it in a lab!

And now the CDC is opposing an epidemiology study on the non-vaccinated US Amish population? I think the talk of what is “scientific” here is being done fast and loose, certainly not consistently.

Don’t worry about the Vaccine Court. It’s financial peanuts. According to the Homeland Security Act, vaccine makers are 100% immune from liability. It’s not like there is any constitutional due process going on for these families. Why isn’t that a travesty of justice? What about all those sealed drug company records? You’re very emotional about a leak, but not the sealed content?

Your outrage is muchado about nothing. It looks like CYA. It is strangely devoid of medical compassion for these children. Your pain is nothing compared to what these families are going through. You couldn’t even muster up enough scientific curiosity to call for a medical answer to settle the issue. What a shame.

I have but one real question, actually. How many kids will that take? One in fifty? One in ten? What’s the magic number that will shame the medical establishment into action?

I recommend you rethink the foundation on which you’ve built this house of cards. You cannot succeed in forcing parents to forget the facts surrounding their personal experience with autism, which is their foundation. The notion of vaccine perfection is just as hysterical and frenzied. Placing your professional reputation on the line for highly questionable epidemiology? Now that’s a truly dangerous decision.

]]> Comment on There’s One (Air)Borne Every Minute by RationalEyes https://rationaleyes.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/theres-one-airborne-every-minute/#comment-24 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:58:43 +0000 https://rationaleyes.wordpress.com/?p=39#comment-24 Sean: Of course, an n of 1 does not a study make. In other words, a single anecdote (or even many) is not sufficient to draw scientific conclusions. There are many variables that could explain such an apparent improvement, not the least of which is chance alone. Try stopping the Airborne and see how you feel. However, be aware of the enormous power of the placebo effect. There is no rationale for why Airborne would work, and plenty of studies have shown similar vitamin/supplements to be no more effective than placebo.

]]> Comment on There’s One (Air)Borne Every Minute by Sean Brice https://rationaleyes.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/theres-one-airborne-every-minute/#comment-23 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:45:57 +0000 https://rationaleyes.wordpress.com/?p=39#comment-23 I have been using Airborne seasonal relief out of curiousity for the last 2 weeks for my allergies, and I must say that I have not felt this good since we got a cat 4 months ago. I’m normally not one to trust something so “gimmicky” as this, but it is unbelievable.

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