First Climategate
And now the scientific credibility of Jenny McCarthy is like that of Al Gore’s:
at the time he published his paper slamming vaccines and which started the antivax craze, he was developing an alternative to vaccinations, so he had a very large monetary incentive to make the public distrust vaccines.
January 29th, 2010 at 1:56 pm
At least Jenny is pretty.
January 29th, 2010 at 2:34 pm
$cience marches on!
January 29th, 2010 at 2:57 pm
I’d say they’re both hot, just in different ways.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:06 pm
And those saps at the Pentagon are falling for the scam:
Climate change may be an “accelerant of instability” in future conflicts, and the U.S. military needs to plan for possible environmental catastrophes and resource wars, according to the Pentagon’s soon-to-be-released master strategy document.
Read More http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/#ixzz0e1tfMXhg
Suckers.
January 29th, 2010 at 8:30 pm
There’s one key difference: McCarthy suffered a tragedy and in her grief latched onto a delusion. While this doesn’t make her anymore right, I can at least emphathize with her.
Gore is just a douchebag who’s discovered a convenient way of scamming more control over everyone around him.
January 29th, 2010 at 8:33 pm
True. But anyone making important decisions based on what those two are selling should be kicked in the dick.
January 29th, 2010 at 11:26 pm
I’d take McCarthy on a trampoline over Al Gore any day of the week…
January 30th, 2010 at 9:52 am
Jenny was the first big intertubes nekkid hottie that I remember, for that she gets a pass on stupidity.
January 30th, 2010 at 9:55 am
Acctually, NEITHER of them ever HAD any scientific credability. they are both idiots, all she had going for her was TITS, and hers arnt that great to begin with……BUY MORE AMMO!
January 30th, 2010 at 10:51 am
I remember Salk v. Sabin. Lots of loose cannons in the Magic Bullet biz. There’s issues in them thar hills: unqualified inoculators, CDC oversight, inability to develop annual variants in time, slithy calls on what constitutes an epidemic, and of all things a shortage of eggs. There are, and should continue to be, valid debates in this field. But now, just as in discussing the weather, every serious seminar and tavern chat will be interrupted by these Yahoos. Political Science…marches on!
Awf’ly straight-faced of you fellows to own up to the Mammocentrism of it all.
January 30th, 2010 at 4:28 pm
RML: The Pentagon plays whatever tune the current CiC plays. It’s their job.
This crap will be forgotten quickly once Obambi is out of office.
February 1st, 2010 at 6:20 pm
Thanks for setting me straight, Kris. I’ll therefore ignore the following:
Congress required in the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that the Department of Defense consider the effects of climate change on all of its “facilities, capabilities and missions,” and, perhaps most notably, it called for the Department to incorporate such concerns into the next Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR). When the QDR is sent to Congress on February 1st, it will offer an unusual opportunity to shift how the national security community views climate change.
http://www.cnas.org/node/4008