MMR in the media - Part 1 - Jeni "Arsehole" Barnett

There have been a couple of MMR related stories in the media - one mainly online, one in print - over the last week or so. Now, I don't generally cover vaccination issues in general, as there are plenty of people who do it so much better than I do. However, naturally, they've both brought out the dribbling fucktards at JABS.

The first was Ben Goldacre's excellent piece on possibly the world's most ignorant radio presenter, one Jeni Barnett. She works for LBC, and is a completely mindless cretin.

She ran an episode (edition? whatever) of her show, which she used as a platform for her half baked, pig shit ignorant ideas about the evils of the MMR jab. She even had a homeopath on to back her case up. How fucking stupid can you be?

Anyway - Dr Goldacre put the audio from the show on his site, and was promptly threatened by LBC's legal team. He's taken it down, but since then the audio and a full transcript of the hateful programme has gone all over the web. I personally recommend The Lay Scientist as a good starting point.

Obviously though, the JABS wingnuts have a different take on it - particularly Jeni's vile shouting over and hectoring of a nurse who rang in to politely, efficiently and sensibly point out where Jeni was wrong, and why what she was doing was a serious danger to public health. If you listen to the audio or read the transcript, you can see how polite she was, and how rude Jeni was. Predictably, that cockend Cybertiger sees it differently:

You've got things a bit ar*e over t*t on this one, Vince. Yasmin [the nurse] is the dolt ... and I cannot see where Jeni Barnett has been rude ... enough. Listen again, Vince.

I'm quite confident that you can make your own mind up on this.

The thread on JABS is called "Support Jeni against Bad Science" - after you've listened to the audio you might want to go there and add your 2p-worth.