Fox's Keith Ablow: Withdrawal of study linking vaccines to autism is "the global warming, if you will, of autism"
February 27, 2010 11:13 am ET
From the February 27 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends Saturday:
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I guess this fool was talking to Michael Savage. I mean the both of them claim to be doctors and know how to treat children with Autism!
SMH!
4. An statement - fact or opinion - that has nothing to do with a commentator's conservative background.
its getting the drumbeat started to claim autisim doesn't exist and the last person to do that was micheal savage.
CYA from his earlier stupid and venal comments. I'm unimpressed, and you are all too easily impressed when the talker is a right-wing scumbag like Savage.
Nice try, but you fail, as usual.
he doesnt know what he is talking about and neither do you.
i have more knoweldge on this subject in my pinky finger than you do in your entire body.
you are wrong. and if you dont think savage tried to misrepresent what autism is, i gave you your quote.
He thinks that because he only wants to acknowledge severe non-verbal autism as autism. Honestly, I think part of the problem stems from rolling several disorders together on a spectrum and calling it the "Autism Spectrum" Had they rolled it together and called it "Neuro-Developmental Spectrum" or some such, there would be less confusion about the variety of disorders.
And yes, I am highly offended when people use this topic as a political football.
Did you read that in one of the "public" library books?
how's that for a quote.
autisim exists, you wanna look me or my parents in the eye and say to them you think savage might be right about autism?
Source
i provided you with a perfecct quote from his own show about what he thinks about autisim. now yes he does have a list of quotes talking about it and such which does moderate things just a bit. but see here is the problem.
the CDC a government agency at least 3years ago, that would have been under the previous administration came out and said that 1 in 150 children born now are diagnosed with autism. and he had the nerve to say the quote i provided, which was his bullcrap opinion without evidence. and the one clip from that list thats tryingg to make himn sound a bit better thats the opinion of one doctor who he could get.
so you have a government agency's data vs michael savage and one doctor. are you honestly trying to say here that savage is more believeable than the CDC? keep defending this bullcrap. your wrong, you will be wrong and unless you live with autism like i do on a daily basis you will always be wrong!
saying it was poorly phrased is not an apology, its a cop out. the day he apologizes, which will never happen, i will be ok with listening to him then
So, yes, he was trying to claim that only those with low-functioning autism should be diagnoses and the rest of us should just suck it up. He is only willing to recognize one little end of the spectrum. I resent that because I live with the ramifications of an Asperger's diagnosis every single day.
It's akin to that episode of South Park where all the kids were diagnosed with ADD.
What part of... "Now, the illness du jour is autism. You know what autism is? I'll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out. That's what autism is." ...do you not understand?
Savage went way off the deep end, as he so often does, in both cruelty and dishonesty with that statement. He then had to go back and revise his statements in light of the furor they caused. I had some respect for some of your arguments, MagCynic, but your twisting in the wind to defend Savage's indefensible statement is disgusting.
He either "didn't mean it" and was talking out of his butt (as he so often does), or he meant it and then cravenly tried to cover his tracks. The guy is paid huge bucks to be a professional communicator. If he makes statements that are 180 degrees from what he actually believes, maybe he should hang it up.
No, but I can truthfully say that I have never attacked victims of a horrible disease before. It takes a special type of creepy misanthrope like Savage to do that.
If I hung around creeps who attacked people for having a disease, I would correct them. Apparently you are not familiar with the concept of CYA because that's exactly what Savage's later statements amount to. Also, Savage frequently brings up old quotes by people he doesn't like, regardless of any subsequent corrections they've made. Oh, and in the spirit of your last comment, I feel sorry for you and anyone who know you too.
No wonder you're proud to be a "common man." You've EARNED it, buddy.
What he said was not "poorly phrased." I've listened to Savage for years on the radio. He said EXACTLY what he meant to say from the beginning. Only when he got slammed for his stupidity, did he start backtracking.
Both sides are guilty of this. Glenn Beck is still calling Van Jones a truther despite Jones explaining how he came to sign it. I believe Van Jones when he says he isn't a truther. What more do I have to go by than someone's word. Without our word what are we?
Beck, your duplicate, is going after Jones because he wrongly blames Jones for his advertiser problems. It doesn't matter if Jones is a "truther" or not. Even if he is, WHO THE HELL CARES? I thought your duplicate was all for free speech. Beck was calling for Jones' head for exercising his right to free speech. Nice try, Beck-clone.
"Beck's problem with Jones is that he didn't agree with having a communist, racist, and truther working for the White House."
Can you at least keep your positions consistent on one thread?
Embrace your "common man" ignorance, Mag. You've earned it.
his name is jacob, and he is 9 years old. he also just happens to be my brother.
so be very careful in what you say about this subject, because i can guarantee i know far more than you can ever hope to. and michael savage doesn't know his rear from his elbow when it comes to autisim. the cdc has come out and said that 1 in 150 children born will be autistic...........and ya know what savage doesnt know better than they do.
He is not saying that global warming doesn't exist.
The man made an idiotic comparison.
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She's at TED.
You have the same denialist, crank conspiracy theorists believing AGW is a cover up by the world's scientists, and that there's a cover up by other scientists to somehow hide the supposed link between autism and vaccines.
These people are nuts.