Bill Maher on healthcare reform, "western medicine", vaccinations, swine flu, and more!

This video is an example of Bill Maher's views on medicine, especially vaccinations and healthcare reform. I want to raise awareness among sceptics when it comes to a lot of claims about BigPharma and their profit motive and bad science about vaccinations. I like Bill Maher in a lot of other ways. He seems to have a critical view of religion and i enjoyed his movie religulous. However, his views on medicine and health care are like all the other conspiracies out there (9/11 truthers and such...) and recently the man won The Richard Dawkins award for promoting science when a lot of what he is doing is antithetical to the promotion of science.
if you want to find out more:
http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/vaccination/thimerosal_qa.htm about what is in h1n1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laetrile#Laetrile the quack cancer treatment Bill Maher talks about

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=161444432417&v=info&ref=search a facebook group containing info about the h1n1 virus.

Michael Shermer's open letter which points out the inconsistencies of Maher's views on medicine. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-maher/vaccination-a-conversatio_b_358578.html

Bill's response: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-maher/vaccination-a-conversatio_b_358578.html

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Two_children_die_after_contracting_H1N1_virus_in_...
A case that happened lately (22/01/2011)

Enjoy and please comment!

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• vaccination
• bill maher
• skepticism
• scepticism
• alternative medicine
• anti-vaccination movement
• quack medicine
• h1n1
• swine flu
• atheism
• alec baldwin
• bill frist
• Alan Grayson
• cancer cures
• cdc
• vaccines

[RUINERx117]

That was really bad editing. I think you left out information that was vital to the argument. That topics are not explained and they can change quickly. I don't see how he got "pwned."

[muaddib17]

@RUINERx117 Oh really? Such as what? "That topics are not explained and they can change quickly." Can you clarify what you mean? And first and foremost I wasn't trying to pwn him. I mostly just wanted people to at least be aware that he holds these views (and amidst the healthcare debate and the H1N1 craze, yes i admit it wasn't that dangerous a virus) and then I figured I would at least clear up some misconceptions about vaccines that were beginning to bother me.

[rainman0915]

honestly could you not have just showed the footage and let people interject their own opinions?

[muaddib17]

@rainman0915 Honestly could you not have just injected your own opinion on the issues at hand instead of just telling me to withhold my opinion? Furthermore, you can find all the clips in their entirety here on YT. What I figured I would do is to offer some more facts (and some rebuttals to Bill Maher) and in such a way as to facilitate more discussion. Thank you very much for watching

[muaddib17]

@muaddib17 Sorry, i meant to say "interjected" in the first sentence.

[blvalverde]

* mutation and they not station and furry,this dammed fone

[blvalverde]

cancer is a genetic station that happens whem your cells reproduce wrong.Its got more likelly to happen whem you are old.On the past everybody eles donner and eated less fast food,so furry normaly drop dead before time and cigarettes had effect.

[pinonoir302]

How many Americans die every year due to lack of medical service?

Study links 45,000 U.S. deaths to lack of insurance each year.

Its one every 12 minutes...

( Reuters )

[doggieGZ]

@luv4knowledge really, can you name this chemotherapy drug?

[luv4knowledge]

@doggieGZ yes there is....I worked on one...you are fat pharma troll, I knew it...good luck to you...

[doggieGZ]

@luv4knowledge "chemotherapy targets various cell surface CD, and other cytoplasmic proteins, it doesn't target genes" There isn't a single chemotherapy drug that targets a cell's surface Cluster of Differentiation...

I was right, you really have no idea how chemotherapy drugs work.