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HuffPo still pushing antivax nonsense

Don't let antivax rhetoric scare you; H1N1 swine flu vaccines are safe and effective. Consult a science-based doctor.

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I used to write for the Huffington Post, an online news and blog collective. It was started by Arianna Huffington during the Bush Era as a response to all the far-right online media. I didn't agree with a lot of what was on there -- I am more centrist -- but at the time I thought it was necessary. Then they started to promote far-left New Age nonsense, and when it came to vaccinations, HuffPo started posting all kinds of opinions that amounted to nothing more than out-and-out health threats. While they do sometimes post a counter-argument, it's still almost all alt-med, all the time. Here's the latest: a doctor named Frank Lipman is telling people not to get vaccinated against Swine Flu. Instead he says you should wash your hands a lot, eat well, and take homeopathic medicine. Yes, seriously. And he does it while spouting quite a few ...

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