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Science Friday is (partially) Vaccine Friday, complete with the Dark Lord of Vaccination himself

Post author By Orac
Post date August 29, 2008
18 Comments on Science Friday is (partially) Vaccine Friday, complete with the Dark Lord of Vaccination himself

I hesitated about whether to post this, knowing how many antivaccine activists read this blog, which is why I didn’t post it yesterday. Still, I think this might be of sufficient interest to my readers that I thought I’d announce it, just with relatively short notice.

It turns out that today’s Science Friday with Ira Flatow features a discussion of childhood vaccines, complete with an appearance by a man whom antivaccinationists consider the Dark Lord of Vaccination himself, Dr. Paul Offit. It’s on at 2 PM, and I’m told that Dr. Offit will be in the 2:20 to 2:40 PM segment, but I generally like to listen to the whole show when I can. Also, if you miss the show, you can always catch it later when it’s released on the Science Friday podcast.

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Orac is the nom de blog of a humble surgeon/scientist who has an ego just big enough to delude himself that someone, somewhere might actually give a rodent's posterior about his copious verbal meanderings, but just barely small enough to admit to himself that few probably will. That surgeon is otherwise known as David Gorski.

That this particular surgeon has chosen his nom de blog based on a rather cranky and arrogant computer shaped like a clear box of blinking lights that he originally encountered when he became a fan of a 35 year old British SF television show whose special effects were renowned for their BBC/Doctor Who-style low budget look, but whose stories nonetheless resulted in some of the best, most innovative science fiction ever televised, should tell you nearly all that you need to know about Orac. (That, and the length of the preceding sentence.)

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