<![CDATA[Gawker: defamer, medicine]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: defamer, medicine]]> http://gawker.com/tag/defamer/medicine http://gawker.com/tag/defamer/medicine <![CDATA[Jim Carrey Blogs a Blog About Vaccines]]> Oh, good, Arianna Huffington is using her "Huffingtontowne Evening Post-Gazette" to promote the idiotic vaccine conspiracy nonsense of Earth Girls Are Easy star Jim Carrey.

For the last fucking time, celebrities, vaccines do not cause autism.

It is fine and noble to say "we should look into what (beyond better, earlier detection and diagnoses) is causing all this autism!" and even "we should make sure we are testing these vaccines extensively!" but to just go around shouting, without evidence, and in spite of evidence to the contrary, "VACCINES CAUSE AUTISM" is 9/11 Truther hysterical idiocy at its dumbest.

But hey, all you non-doctors with absolutely no understanding of the scientific method or medical research can just go ahead and keep using your massive platforms to convince parents not to vaccinate their kids, because what is the worst that could happen?

Last week official figures showed that 1,348 confirmed cases of measles in England and Wales were reported last year, compared with 56 in 1998. Two children have died of the disease.

Good work, Arianna, letting this famous person promote his little pet cause on your website, thus is the vast potential of the citizen-driven new media landscape realized.

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5223051&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[In Chasing Anna Nicole's Doctor, TMZ Poised To Blow The Lid Off The Secret Practice Of Entertainment Medicine]]> anna-nicole3.jpgYesterday, 24/7 online Anna Nicole Smith newswire TMZ.com exclusively revealed that in addition to once partying with America's Princess Di at the WeHo Gay Pride in 2005, Dr. Sandeep Kapoor had apparently prescribed methadone to a Smith alias shortly before she gave birth to the daughter whose paternity would later be claimed by not less than forty-five virile men. Since that story broke, the site has plunged ever deeper into his life by following up with a pair of items on Smith's Dr. Feelnothing, revealing his bizarre fetish for entering sport utility vehicles while draped in blankets and discovering that one of his stated areas of practice is Entertainment Medicine, a discipline whose existence was summarily denied by celebrity-frequented St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica. We expect that the always exhaustively thorough TMZ won't be deterred by this obvious attempt at stonewalling their investigation into the shadowy underworld of the ent-med field, whose secretive, utterly discreet practitioners are always available to perform emergency, overdose-obscuring surgical procedures or help the famous manage the pain of celebrity through pharmacological means.


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