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    Salon.com flushes its credibility down the toilet - 1 year(s) ago

    ( NOTE ADDED 6/20/05: I’ve closed this post to comments for now, because the discussion thread is getting way too long and hard to follow. …

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      gorskon

      I first started writing about RFK Jr.'s rabid antivax conspiracy mongering in 2005, when @Salon and @RollingStone published his article on thimerosal in vaccines. It was a conspiracy theory about @CDCgov very much like current antivax conspiracy theories. https://t.co/u5ZiseEJlG

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    The Galileo Gambit - 1 year(s) ago

    The appearance of the Herbinator on my blog last week and his sarcastic invocation of Galileo reminded me of a topic I’ve wanted to write …

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      We have a term for this comparison. It's known as the Galileo gambit. I coined it nearly 18 years ago. https://t.co/0mhYws9WDV https://t.co/kxukdLtjjV

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    Bill Maher: Anti-vax wingnut - 2 year(s) ago

    Via Skeptico , I’ve learned of some more antivaccination stupidity issuing forth from self-proclaimed “skeptic” Bill Maher during his recen…

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      Here's the receipt from my very first blog on Blogspot from December 2005 if you don't believe me. I include it because it's a fuller discussion. https://t.co/rWhBt4nRWo

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    Is Bill Maher really that ignorant? Part 2 - 2 year(s) ago

    The short answer is: Yes. The long answer is below. When I first posted on this yesterday , I had hoped things weren’t as they appeared. Al…

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      Oh, what the hell. Here's the first time I ever wrote about @billmaher's antivax nonsense, from March 7, 2005, complete with a couple of key quotes from him. https://t.co/qyrMJezdfk https://t.co/fXk6svYt1b

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    The Galileo Gambit - 2 year(s) ago

    The appearance of the Herbinator on my blog last week and his sarcastic invocation of Galileo reminded me of a topic I’ve wanted to write …

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      I coined the term "Galileo gambit" back in 2005 to describe the use of this fallacy. At least I think I did. I haven't seen an earlier usage, but it's possibly that someone used the term before I did. https://t.co/RY1KDoASOr https://t.co/buZZ3oVubk

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    The Galileo Gambit - 2 year(s) ago

    The appearance of the Herbinator on my blog last week and his sarcastic invocation of Galileo reminded me of a topic I’ve wanted to write …

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      If you're not familiar with the Galileo gambit, it was one of the earliest things I ever wrote about on my old Blogspot blog in 2005 and is likening oneself (or "mavericks" one admires) to Galileo and their "persecution" as based in religion, not science. https://t.co/RY1KDoASOr

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    The "pharma shill" gambit - 2 year(s) ago

    I get the impression from the rapidly decreasing number of comments being posted here that the Hitler zombie might–just might–have oversta…

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      I coined a term for this one back in 2005: The pharma shill gambit. https://t.co/IuDkHe6t0a https://t.co/DTPbbH4hjZ

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