Buying from China

James Lyons-Weiler’s speculations and fear mongering just go to show how even a scientist can fall under the spell of antivaccine pseudoscience (or any other conspiracy theory-driven pseudoscience). My guess is that the Lyons-Weiler who once ran a genomics core would have recognized that the “science” that the antivaccine Lyons-Weiler of today is laying down is nothing more than wild speculation that’s based on only the thinnest of scientific gruel and highly unlikely to be true. More’s the pity. Even worse, because he has a background in molecular biology, his conspiracy theory will sound plausible to most lay people.

I guess some never met a good conspiracy theory they didn't like. More idiocracy from anti- vaxxers. 

Humm, science research? 

Using the term “scientist” to describe someone who hasn’t done real science, especially with respect to vaccines, seems strange. I want to see the first authorship on a body of papers where clinical trials, epidemiological studies, or basic scientific research are described and analyzed that focuses on vaccines. The anti-vaccine world might want to tout James Lyons-Weiler as a scientist, but he doesn’t do basic scientific research, so that is a title that is probably undeserved.

If you buy electronics from China, whatever you do, don't pop the bubbles in the bubble wrap.

It contains Chinese air.

Frank

"James Lyons-Weiler’s speculations and fear mongering just go to show how even a scientist can ..."

...become a confidence artist and ask for monetary donations.

For whatever reason, audiogon has lately become infested with strangely rabid support for con artistry.