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The Causal Link Between Vaccination and Autism
Jenny McCarty is famous for her anti-vaccination campaign. She has no technical background in medical research, in biology or anything like that. Stephen Hawking's latest book starts out with a complete out of hand dismissal of the entire field of philosophy on the ground that it hasn't made any contribution to science over the last several decades. The two examples are on the same continuum because we're talking about somebody who is clearly making off-end comments about things he knows nothing about.