<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617943.post2513683271995560409..comments</id><updated>2009-07-06T23:34:37.276+10:00</updated><category term='Appeal to Authority'/><category term='Pseudoscience'/><category term='Devil&apos;s Advocate'/><category term='Humbug'/><category term='Oprah'/><category term='Naturalistic Fallacy'/><category term='free'/><category term='Stacking the Deck'/><category term='Altruism'/><category term='Climate Change'/><category term='Race'/><category term='Michael Moore'/><category term='Wishful Thinking'/><category term='Substitution'/><category term='The Devil&apos;s Advocate'/><category term='Comments Policy'/><category term='Distortatures'/><category term='Optical Illusion'/><category term='George Bush'/><category term='Misuse of Information'/><category term='Scientology.'/><category term='Exaggerated Conflict'/><category term='Perfect Solution'/><category term='Unfounded Generalisation'/><category term='Jef&apos;s Cartoons'/><category term='Bingo'/><category term='Appeal to Celebrity'/><category term='plausibility test'/><category term='Neuroscience'/><category term='Obsevational Selection'/><category term='Dr Evil'/><category term='Slippery Slope'/><category term='eBook'/><category term='Homeopathy'/><category term='Darwin'/><category term='Gibberish'/><category term='Bad Science'/><category term='Argument by Slogan'/><category term='U2.'/><category term='Nocebo effect'/><category term='Poisoning the Well'/><category term='Skeptics of Carlos'/><category term='Conspiracy Theories'/><category term='Name that Fallacy'/><category term='Brain Teaser'/><category term='lmgtgy'/><category term='Argument by Artifice'/><category term='Burden of Proof'/><category term='Moral Equivalence'/><category term='Creationism'/><category term='public draft'/><category term='Browbeating'/><category term='Self Defeating Argument'/><category term='False Positioning'/><category term='Terry McCrann'/><category term='epistemology'/><category term='Factoid Propagation'/><category term='Fallacy'/><category term='iPhone'/><category term='Astrology'/><category term='Bono'/><category term='belief'/><category term='Evolution'/><category term='Personal Abuse'/><category term='Skeptic Zone'/><category term='postdiction'/><category term='Jenny McCarthy'/><category term='Inversion'/><category term='False Dichotomy'/><category term='LAME'/><category term='paranormal'/><category term='Skeptics&apos; Circle'/><category term='Superstition'/><category term='Education'/><category term='Brain Gym'/><category term='False Cause; Correlation Error'/><category term='Random'/><category term='PETA'/><category term='Mike Carlton'/><category term='Germaine Greer'/><category term='LOL'/><category term='Sanal Edamaruku is a legend'/><category term='Cultural Origins'/><category term='Christopher Hitchens'/><category term='Technology'/><category term='Memes'/><category term='The Secret'/><category term='Podcast'/><category term='cacoethes'/><category term='Genes'/><category term='Begging the Question'/><category term='Cricket'/><category term='briskepticon'/><category term='Al Gore'/><category term='Philosophy'/><category term='Logic'/><category term='words worth espousing'/><category term='Red Herring'/><category term='Phillip Adams'/><category term='Survey'/><category term='Socratic Method'/><category term='Chiropractic'/><category term='immunised hypothesis'/><category term='Impugning Motives'/><category term='empirical evidence'/><category term='falsification'/><category term='Hume&apos;s Razor'/><category term='Spinning another hypothesis'/><category term='Bill Bryson'/><category term='South Park'/><category term='Audio'/><category term='Weasel Words'/><category term='Non-sequitur'/><category term='Popular Opinion'/><category term='misconception'/><category term='2nd edition'/><category term='Eager Beaver'/><category term='Burden of solution'/><category term='by Theo'/><category term='False Attribution'/><category term='denialism'/><category term='Android'/><category term='humbug hunting'/><category term='non-fallacy'/><category term='Bad Faith'/><category term='Facebook'/><category term='Dr Phil'/><category term='Argument to Consequences'/><category term='Straw Man'/><category term='science'/><category term='Noel Pearson'/><category term='Special Pleading'/><category term='Aliens'/><category term='LAMEASS-OTM'/><category term='learning styles'/><category term='Red Flag Faux Pas'/><category term='Miscellany'/><category term='Physics'/><category term='WTF? Fallacy'/><category term='Occam&apos;s Razor'/><category term='False Analogy'/><category term='Skepticism'/><category term='Fake but True'/><category term='Induction'/><category term='by Jef'/><category term='Reductio Ad Absurdum'/><category term='Critical Thinking'/><category term='Moving the Goalposts'/><category term='Simple-Minded Certitude'/><category term='ad hominem'/><category term='False dilemma'/><category term='Fallacy List'/><category term='Fallacy.'/><category term='Jeni Barnett'/><category term='Autism'/><category term='John Howard'/><category term='Vaccines'/><category term='mathematics'/><category term='beclown'/><category term='psychics'/><category term='Appeal to Celebrity.'/><category term='Ambiguity'/><category term='Sanctimony'/><category term='Cake'/><category term='Double Blind'/><category term='Hunting Humbug 101'/><category term='Friday 13'/><category term='Penn and Teller'/><category term='medicine'/><category term='GIGO.'/><title type='text'>Comments on The Skeptic's Field Guide: Homeopathic vaccine for swine flu</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.skepticsfieldguide.net/feeds/2513683271995560409/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9617943/2513683271995560409/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.skepticsfieldguide.net/2009/07/homeopathic-vaccine-for-swine-flu.html'/><author><name>Theo Clark</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/108645831840656817487</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-83lTj1Jgnus/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAXkM/NaIIN84I_is/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>4</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617943.post-3138475050763634850</id><published>2009-07-06T23:34:37.276+10:00</published><updated>2009-07-06T23:34:37.276+10:00</updated><title type='text'>All the points made above are good. 

Plan B: &lt;a h...</title><content type='html'>All the points made above are good. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Plan B: &lt;a href="http://www.smh.com.au/national/swine-flu-party-idea-foolhardy-20090702-d60l.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;Swine Flu Party&lt;/a&gt;. I&amp;#39;ll have a party with people who have swine flu, so I catch swine flu. That way I won&amp;#39;t get swine flu when I come into contact with swine flu, because I&amp;#39;ll have natural immunity to swine flu from already having had swine flu... oh, wait. &lt;a href="http://www.skepticsfieldguide.net/2006/07/examples-of-wtf-fallacy.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;WTF?&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9617943/2513683271995560409/comments/default/3138475050763634850'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9617943/2513683271995560409/comments/default/3138475050763634850'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.skepticsfieldguide.net/2009/07/homeopathic-vaccine-for-swine-flu.html?showComment=1246887277276#c3138475050763634850' title=''/><author><name>Theo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07342708791160461777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3uX0YRWLp50/SPB7QU5RZEI/AAAAAAAAAE0/tfi6OZDRVRw/S220/TC+Simpsons.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.skepticsfieldguide.net/2009/07/homeopathic-vaccine-for-swine-flu.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617943.post-2513683271995560409' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9617943/posts/default/2513683271995560409' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-657448792'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617943.post-6809524931042095062</id><published>2009-07-06T22:55:53.310+10:00</published><updated>2009-07-06T22:55:53.310+10:00</updated><title type='text'>Ah, but Sean, think of the water cycle. Black deat...</title><content type='html'>Ah, but Sean, think of the water cycle. Black death, bodies thrown into the Thames. Bodies decompose and mix with seawater, seawater evaporates and forms clouds (many times over). Molecules gradually disperse to the Tasman Sea, evaporate again and find way into tapwater. Tapwater drunk, thus inoculating population. AND... no BLACK DEATH IN OZ!!!</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9617943/2513683271995560409/comments/default/6809524931042095062'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9617943/2513683271995560409/comments/default/6809524931042095062'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.skepticsfieldguide.net/2009/07/homeopathic-vaccine-for-swine-flu.html?showComment=1246884953310#c6809524931042095062' title=''/><author><name>Jef</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.skepticsfieldguide.net/2009/07/homeopathic-vaccine-for-swine-flu.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617943.post-2513683271995560409' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9617943/posts/default/2513683271995560409' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-1727395794'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617943.post-3503414777950122222</id><published>2009-07-06T22:43:36.794+10:00</published><updated>2009-07-06T22:43:36.794+10:00</updated><title type='text'>I believe there are already homeopathic vaccines f...</title><content type='html'>I believe there are already homeopathic vaccines for swine flu, and goodness knows they didn&amp;#39;t go past the kitchen tap to make up their solution.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9617943/2513683271995560409/comments/default/3503414777950122222'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9617943/2513683271995560409/comments/default/3503414777950122222'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.skepticsfieldguide.net/2009/07/homeopathic-vaccine-for-swine-flu.html?showComment=1246884216794#c3503414777950122222' title=''/><author><name>Sean the Blogonaut F.C.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14485575602984697926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/156/430863124_f254aea709_o.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.skepticsfieldguide.net/2009/07/homeopathic-vaccine-for-swine-flu.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617943.post-2513683271995560409' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9617943/posts/default/2513683271995560409' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-33979572'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617943.post-3193035499373313730</id><published>2009-07-06T22:30:42.809+10:00</published><updated>2009-07-06T22:30:42.809+10:00</updated><title type='text'>Too late Theo, all the other swine flu cases have ...</title><content type='html'>Too late Theo, all the other swine flu cases have already sent their pestilential exudates down the drain. In the aggregate, they are much too concentrated in the ocean to be efficacious.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9617943/2513683271995560409/comments/default/3193035499373313730'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9617943/2513683271995560409/comments/default/3193035499373313730'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.skepticsfieldguide.net/2009/07/homeopathic-vaccine-for-swine-flu.html?showComment=1246883442809#c3193035499373313730' title=''/><author><name>Jef</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.skepticsfieldguide.net/2009/07/homeopathic-vaccine-for-swine-flu.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617943.post-2513683271995560409' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9617943/posts/default/2513683271995560409' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-1727395794'/></entry></feed>
