{"id":328831,"date":"2010-02-16T12:50:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T17:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=11541"},"modified":"2010-02-16T12:50:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T17:50:52","slug":"another-skeptic-story-hits-mainstream-desiree-jennings-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/328831","title":{"rendered":"Another skeptic story hits mainstream: Desiree Jennings | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/skepchick.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/desiree-jennings-dr-buttar-on-inside-edition\/\">Via Rebecca<\/a> I found out that Inside Edition did a rather skeptical story about Desiree Jennings, the woman who claimed a vaccine gave her dystonia, a nervous disorder that caused her to have difficult walking and talking. <\/p>\n<p>A lot of folks knew right away that this was, um, <em>unlikely<\/em>, to say the least. Steve Novella from Skeptic&#8217;s Guide to the Universe <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.theness.com\/neurologicablog\/?p=1163\">has been very vocal about it<\/a>, and I was surprised and pleased to see him in the Inside Edition segment!<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"embeddedvideo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Kpe1u4cKbTk&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/iframe><\/center><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>So as usual, they have to leave room for the woo &#8212; TV has a product to sell in cases like these, more&#8217;s the pity &#8212; but it&#8217;s still nice to see a skeptical viewpoint get more than lip service. Of course, now that the story is getting old, the skeptical viewpoint might sell a little better; the controversy is no longer about the vaccination causing a problem, but whether Ms. Jennings is being honest or not. But the more we get our foot in the door, the more people are shown that there can be a more critical way to think, the better.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/yBKPS-X85lA5tb9ELy3esZqvCKM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/yBKPS-X85lA5tb9ELy3esZqvCKM\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/yBKPS-X85lA5tb9ELy3esZqvCKM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/yBKPS-X85lA5tb9ELy3esZqvCKM\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/0gqxRaXLOJo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/O-xCFdI0uPQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Rebecca I found out that Inside Edition did a rather skeptical story about Desiree Jennings, the woman who claimed a vaccine gave her dystonia, a nervous disorder that caused her to have difficult walking and talking. A lot of folks knew right away that this was, um, unlikely, to say the least. Steve Novella [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}