Bill Maher and a few other things

Im making this separate cause I think its important. Bill Maher received the Richard Dawkins award. Im not going to really comment too much on this as its already been beaten to death by others on the internet (use the Google if you are curious about the details).

Quick summary: Maher got an award that in theory is meant for promoting science, mainly for his movie Religulous (funny movie but not really promoting science so much as making fun of religion). However, Maher is anti medicine (or at least western medicine as he calls it) and is generally especially against vaccines.

I as many had issues with this, and at least Dawkins helped by saying he doesn't agree with all of Mahers stuff but for his work on Religulous and other things associated he is still happy to give him the award. Fine, I don't really have a huge issue.

My big thing is the last two weeks Maher has brought this up on his last two shows. First he talked to Bill Frist about it, and Frist basically called him out and told him he was crazy. Last night he came up with another thing with his panel to clear up recent comments about his craziness that hes not a germ theory denier (which I would say hes not, but he down plays it far less than what is reality) and also he understands how inoculation works but thinks that all the stuff they put in vaccines is bad so vaccines are bad.

Im sorry, he is wrong. He brings up the fact that some equate his talking out about vaccines the same as denying evolution, and I think it is. He does not want to talk about it. He wants to tell people that they are idiots for getting the flu vaccine for example. He has already made up his mind. Obviously he has not seen the studies that show there is no link between the stuff they put in vaccines (or the actual vaccine itself) and any other major health issue. And the risks associated with the vaccine far outweigh the issues of not getting it.

Now, this is coming from someone who has never (or at least not that im aware of) gotten the flu vaccine. However this is not because that I think they are dangerous, its just that I rarely seem to get sick (though the last couple of years has been an exception). I also generally do not go out looking to get a shot, as needles generally are not something I like. However, I did recently go to the doctors (a few months ago on this trip) and was informed that "Hey you haven't had your tetanus and all the other stuff that your supposed to get every 10 years or so" so they gave it to me. I barely felt the needle.

So, im thinking of going to get the flu vaccine, mainly cause I hate getting sick. Anyways, im done.

Also, one last thing. Work has been killing me. Thats all im going to say as anything more, this will get much longer and ill get more pissed.