Penn and Teller kick out at anti vaccine lobby

Aug 18th, 2010 | By | Category: Christina England, Top Stories

by Christina England
vactruth.com
08/18/2010

In a recently released video ‘Penn and Teller Bullshit – Vaccination’, the pair of magicians Penn and Teller, use their usual male chauvinistic and pratt like abilities, to go all out to prove to the world that vaccines are safe, that they have eradicated illnesses, that they are super efficient and any parent who does not want to inject their little darlings, with a syringe full of poison, is being totally irresponsible.


According to the dynamic duo, by throwing a load of yellow balls at a large plastic board displaying a huge syringe logo on , this is supposed to convince the world once and for all that vaccines do not cause Autism, are wonderfully safe and protects all children against infection.

In their feeble attempt to bully the entire population into believing that vaccines are safe, when shown a list of vaccine ingredients by Wendy Callahan,who is the co director of Vaccination Liberation, stating that the contents of an average vaccine has no place in a syringe that is about to be given to a small child and is more suitable for a satanic ritual, they attempt to prove that these ingredients are perfectly safe.

They do this by making statements such as ‘mouse brain and aluminum hydroxide stimulates antibody levels’, however, they show us no evidence what so ever to back up their claims. Instead of giving any real facts, they bombard their audience with foul language and teenage Tom foolery, expecting the public to believe what they say is gospel and hang on their every word.

According to this team the entire anti vaccine movement is made up from self righteous celebrates, playboy models, grieving parents and whack jobs. Although they neatly missed out the many thousands of medical professionals which include doctors, paediatricians, psychologists, neurologists, pathologists and haematologists who also do not believe in vaccines.

As per usual Dr Andrew Wakefield came under fire and was blamed for everything, from causing world poverty to the greenhouse effect. Naturally, like with every other part of their ill informed poorly researched video, they had very few facts about the Wakefield case and instead were eager to tell the world how a British Medical Panel found him to be guilty of gross professional misconduct. Calling his study

Shockingly fucked up
Absolutely wrong and
Possibly Criminal

The pair say that the pro vaccination lobby had needed their own sea level, self righteous, celebrate nut jobs to help out and they had volunteered. Well that is one fact they certainly did not need to try too hard to back up.

Apparently, according to this crazy duo, the CDC have said that the numbers of Autism had sky rocketed since the 1980′s from 1 in every 10,000 to 1 in every 110. To account for this massive rise they say that in the early days Autism was diagnosed by children being severely withdrawn with no language, whereas now this has changed to include children who are on the Autistic Spectrum Disorder.

They add that professionals change the criteria to include more children and then act surprised when more children are diagnosed. Fair enough but come on guys even using that example hardly accounts for a leap from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 110 now does it?

In my opinion this pair of magicians could not convince me that vaccines were 100% safe any more than they could convince me that they could really pull a rabbit out of a hat. I should stick to magic if I was you.

All comments made in this article are my own opinion.

http://www.casttv.com/popout/zrbe4ah

First Name Email
Tags: , , ,
  • AnneS

    I’m so glad I decided not to watch this. From the preview, I knew it was just going to be cursing and bullying.
    They are magicians, but having a child with vaccine-induced-autism I no longer believe in their “magic”.

  • Sandy

    Here’s the video link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhk7-5eBCrs

    Penn and Teller present erroneous statements about vaccines from beginning to end. It is dubious whether anyone would be convinced about anything they maintain.

    Penn and Teller are supposed to be entertainers, but their style is aggressive and pathetically uninteresting.

    Irrespective of one’s views regarding vaccines: The video is truly bullshit and a complete waste of time.

  • Brad C

    These 2 are a sad excuse for anything except their gad been done before comedy….

  • Sandy

    As always, Christina has written a well formulated and well reasoned article! I agree entirely with her about this video.

    Penn and Teller present a barrage of aggressive statements about vaccines and vaccine statistics, many of which are completely erroneous.

    They also make the illogical mistake of classing all people who are critical regarding vaccines as one homogeneous group.

    Their style is unconvincing and not even entertaining.

    Whether or not one is positive towards or critical regarding vaccines, this video is amateurish and a waste of time.

  • Amber

    No?? Really? A website call VaccineTruth didn’t like the Vaccine Episode of Bullshit? Why ever not?

  • Christina England

    I am pleased that you enjoyed my article. I did wonder which group they would put me into….Now would that be a self righteous celebrate, playboy model, grieving parent or a whack job? I will go for the playboy model LOL
    A girl can dream.

    Christina

  • Paco

    Thanks for your article Christina, it repudiates the blanket statements these two are feeding on the unsuspecting public.

    Are these clowns being paid by the pharmaceutical companies for this junk?

  • Dustin

    I took the polio vaccine and never got polio, I

  • Shaylee

    Hey autism rates only wen’t up because the definition of autism was revamped and because of that it included more children, and research is better, diagnosing the children is better. VACCINATION DOES NOT CAUSE AUTISM!

  • TheAntiV

    Apparently they never stated that vaccines were 100% safe.

  • Lee

    “As per usual Dr Andrew Wakefield came under fire and was blamed for everything, from causing world poverty to the greenhouse effect.” Someone clearly didn’t watch and/or listen to the show. Classic wackjob hysterical hyperbole.

    Many claims in this article don’t have any facts to back them up either so you know…

  • Omar

    Wow, I mean for someone who has a journalist degree and media degree. A little research and I mean a little research would show how wrong you are. But then again people like you tend to jump on any bandwagon that will promote you higher in your career without thinking of how the masses of un-educated people out there that will take your advice. And when their child gets a disease that they are not supposed to get such as Black plague you turn around and jump on the other side. That side being why isn’t the government providing the vaccines for black plague. Why did the doctors fail these people when in fact it was your miss-information that did it to them.
    Oh and if you do not think that the black plague is still around. Do your research. There have been cases of black plague in the USA as recently as the mid 2000′s. You disgust me and if I was your boss I would fire you for gross stupidity and incompetence as a journalist.
    At the very least I am happy that my children will never attend a school where your child attends. And yes I send my child to a school that requires proof of Vaccination.

  • http://vactruth.com Jeffry John Aufderheide

    When you are done emotionally insulting her, you can go research how someone gets “black plague”. But then again, you are probably used to getting your way by bullying people and throwing your weight around.

  • Argus

    But you have to admit. Jeffry, that he is right about Christina’s compotency as a journalist. Just look at the number of articles she has posted here that contained information or made statements that cannot be documented or confirmed.
    Perhaps the editor that allows such inaccurate reporting to be published should be sacked as well.

  • Lawrence

    You are guilty of giving this person far too much credit and respect. She does not have degrees in journalism or media. She has never been published in any respectable journal. She writes pitiful articles on conspiracy theory websites about vaccinations, despite no medical or scientific knowledge whatsoever.