Similar to the marijuana nonsense, and more recently the salvia bullshit. Everytime you make a drug illegal you take control away from the people and put it in the hands of the criminals.

>> ^rychan:
This interview is so full of weasel words and misrepresentation of our scientific community. Conspiracy theories galore.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiomersal_controversy
This lawyer speaks with such certainty, how does he rebut all of these large-scale studies which show that autism rates are unchanged (or actually increase a tiny amount) when Thiomersal isn't used?
This study from Denmark http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/290/13/1763 shows that 20,000 children who received no Thiomersal had the same autism risk. Increasing dosages of Thiomersal didn't cause increasing in autism rate.
What can this guy possibly say about that study? There was no nuance in what he was claiming -- he very much implied that Thiomersal was the exclusive source of autism. That autism hadn't even existed before it was used.
He's just a weasel. There's no way an objective person can review the literature and make the conclusions that he's made.


I tihnk there are other factors involved...but nobody can deny the odd coincidences with autism and vaccines. The fact that you dismiss an arguement based on an irrelevant wikki entry written by fellow american's and likely a proponent of pharmaceuticals is astounding. You should take someone's word who does the real studies and has done so for a long time. Maybe there is no direct correlation right now, but something is going on, and Judos to this guy for trying to figure it out. And Fuck you for your dismissive, ignorant, and lame ass excuses.

>> ^MarineGunrock:
I say that theoretically, if time travel were possible, we would have already heard of it's existence by someone going back in time to now, or before now.

Really MarineGunRock you hadn't considered the possibility that someone with that kind of technology would has suits of invisibility as well? Or maybe by moving backwards in time you are in fact creating a different timeline and therefore anyone moving back in time wouldn't be in our universe anyway, according to recent quantum physics theory which suggests that there are infinite universes.
Just gotta think about it sometimes....not everything is black and white.

More evidence that shows the US is moving to a police state, if its not already.

When essential services like health care are left to the markets, shit like this happens... I love our gov run health care.

Mad Skills.

>> ^T-man:
I'm no fan of McCain, but "Are we in a recession?" is, as he pointed out, a technical question that is almost impossible to answer. He did about as good as he could with his answer.


A recession is defined to be a period of two quarters of negative GDP growth. What the fuck are you talking about? impossible to answer my ass, its a simple question where a yes or no answer would suffice. Mcain the bullshit express avoided the question and its implications directly and instead talked about hurting American families, and CONGRESS approval rating, not bush... What a douche bag.

Fuck Viacom? No, fuck the politicians who still haven't amended an ancient copyright act or passed any new laws regarding privacy and the internet. Most of all fuck the stupid ass, old ass, ignorant ass, Judge who clearly doesn't even really know what the internet is.

>> ^blankfist:
Outrageous! Certainly the use of fear by the government. Great post.
>> ^MarineGunrock:
O RLY? I think you would change your tune if you ever lived in a real police state.

I live in America. This is a real police state. You can start with why we have FISA, move to the Military Commissions Act of 2006 and end with the Patriot Act. If that's not enough for you, I've got more! For someone who says they follow Ron Paul, you sure don't listen to what he says, gunner. I'd say start here. It's about as good a book I've ever read. I think everyone, no matter your party affiliation, could learn something from that book. Easy read.


MarineGunRock only reads books with pictures.

I love it when smart people speak....pure intellectual poetry. Thank you Trita Parsi

I Fucking Love my country. *promote

Wow....he's even smarter than most preachers

Americas solution to the immigrant population...

Crazy but not surprising, the US is a police state.

>> ^MarineGunrock:
Except that there's a difference between speaking your thoughts and being a disturbance. One is repectable and one makes you an ass.


If its not appropriate to dissent in a political forum where is it? Your democracy is an illusion, there are no political forums where the people actually have a real say in politics. That is what democracy is all about, not just one stupid vote.
The people that first rebelled against England in your country certainly disturbed the political visits of English royalty... To dispel dissent is to dispel the foundations of the country and the freedoms you now enjoy.