Get ready for more anti-vax woo: Thanks ABC! GRRR.....

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Pediatricians Group Wants Show Canceled
January 28, 2008 - 7:55pm

By LINDSEY TANNER
AP Medical Writer

CHICAGO (AP) - The nation's largest pediatricians' group on Monday said ABC should cancel the first episode of a new series because it perpetuates the myth that vaccines can cause autism.

ABC's new drama, "Eli Stone," debuts on Thursday. It features British actor Jonny Lee Miller as a prophet-like lawyer who in the opening episode argues in court that a flu vaccine made a child autistic. When it is revealed in court that an executive at the fictional vaccine maker didn't allow his own child to get the shot, jurors side with the family, giving them a huge award.

The show's co-creators say they're not anti-vaccine and would be upset if parents chose not to immunize their children after seeing the show.

But, said Dr. Renee R. Jenkins, president of the influential American Academy of Pediatrics, "A television show that perpetuates the myth that vaccines cause autism is the height of reckless irresponsibility on the part of ABC and its parent company, The Walt Disney Co."

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=106&sid=1334586

Fuck ABC. THis is totally irresponsible. No one has EVER won a court case with the vaccine-autism link. And its alos gonna play up the all Big Pharma is EVUL stereotype as well.
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1. This is a rehash of all the god/angel shows

Seems to me. He sees angels and shit, and he's supposed to be a prof(ph)it of some sort. Rip off of Highway to Heaven, Touched by an Angel, Joan of Arcadia, etc, sounds like. Hopefully it dies a quick death, the last thing we need is more shit like that on TV.

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2. Next week in the Health Lounge:

I saw it on ABC it must be true!!1!11!ONE

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3. and a certain poster will use that

as one of his "cites" (sic)

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4. Is there a graphic for "Ask Dr Google"?

Because there totally should be.

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5. maybe