Ted Williams' Emotional Reunion with Mother

A Banner Day For Junk Science . . .
Investor’s Business Daily notes, “A study debunking Vaccines by a scientist in the pay of trial lawyers was found to be ‘an elaborate Fraud.’ Meanwhile, the ‘Great Garbage Patch’ turned out to be a sea myth. Science has some explaining to do:” Corruption: A study debunking Vaccines by a scientist in the pay of trial lawyers was found to be “an elaborate Fraud.” Meanwhile, the “Great Garbage Patch” turned out to be a sea myth. Sc...

Obamacare Repeal Passes in House, 4 Democrats Voted Yes for Repeal
It may be a symbolic victory, but a victory nonetheless. The bill to Repeal the job-killing ObamaCare has passed in the House, with four Democrats voting with the Republican majority. The final vote tally was 236-181. The Washington Times reported: Confronting President Obama, the new Republican-led House took a first step Friday toward a symbolic vote to Repeal his landmark Health Care overhaul law, which would provide coverage to more than 30 million Americans without Health Insurance. But t...

Will autism fraud report be a vaccine booster?
ATLANTA (AP) — This week more shame was heaped upon the discredited British researcher whose work gave rise to the childhood-vaccines-cause-autism movement, as a prominent medical journal published a report that the man had faked his data. But will it make a difference? Some believe the latest news will finally destroy the reputation of researcher Andrew Wakefield and put an end to the claim of scientific underpinnings for the anti-vaccine movement. "We hope that declaring the paper a Fraud...

Another science fraud
Everybody (except the most ignorant and gullible) has known this for years, but it needs to get around before it causes more damage: Vaccine-Autism Study an “Elaborate Fraud” ...

Report Linking Vaccines to Autism Was an Absolute Fraud
I wonder how many Children have become ill thanks to Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s fraudulent study linking the MMR Vaccine (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) to Autism. Quite a few people bought into and stopped having their Children vaccinated. The journal that originally published the study had to retract it. The findings have never been able to be replicated. But it wasn’t just a case of bad science, it turns out the study was intentionally fraudulent. Authored by Andrew Wakefield and 12 other...

As the U.S. Constitution is Read on the Floor...
It's never been done before. The U.S. Constitution has NEVER been read on the floor of the Congress. And to no one's surprise, the voting records of most Congressmen demonstrate they've never read the document for themselves! So as you know, GOA initiated a campaign early last month to require the incoming Congress to read the Constitution. And our effort paid off yesterday when the House of Representatives read the Constitution on the floor of that chamber. This was quite a historic event. On...

Ted Williams' Reunion With His Mother Delayed By Networks (VIDEO)
The reunion of golden-voiced Homeless man Ted Williams and the mother he had not seen for ten years was delayed by behind-the-scenes network wrangling over who would film the event. NBC and CBS were engaged in a fierce war over Williams, whose story has captivated people since a video of him using his smooth baritone while asking for money went viral earlier in the week. CBS had scored the first interview with Williams (via satellite Wednesday), but then NBC managed to get him on a flight from...

Homeless Ohio man with velvety voice back with mom
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Homeless man whose silky announcing voice has catapulted him to national fame reunited Thursday with his mother, recorded a commercial for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese and agreed to do voiceover work for MSNBC. Video posted by The Columbus Dispatch shows Ted Williams walking quickly toward his 90-year-old mother at their New York reunion. Williams says, “Hi, Mommy. Hi, Mommy,” when he sees her in a hotel for the first time in about 20 years. Brooklyn resi...

Ted Williams: A homeless man with a golden voice gets a new chance
Ted Williams, a Homeless man with a golden voice, had a video of himself begging by the road posted on YouTube this week. Within days job offers for voice work poured in, including a dream job with the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers....

Video: Ted Williams - Homeless Man with the Golden Voice:
A real feel good story. After his video went viral Ted Williams, a Homeless man from Cleveland, OH was hired on by WNCI. From the Streets to the Airwaves. Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Please Support COMMON CENTS by doing your Christmas Shopping here. Thank You!! Watermark template. Powered by Blogger. ...

Man With the Golden Voice Ted Williams, Makes it onto Jimmy Fallon (Video)
Williams was doing the into for guests last night on the show ...

Goolsbee: Economic Policy Will Shift Focus to Growth
Yahoo! Buzz Austan Goolsbee , chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said Friday the administration’s Economic Policy will shift from “rescue and crisis mode” to “recovery and raise the growth rate mode.” Mr. Goolsbee, the only one of President Obama’s senior economic advisors with a Ph.D. in economics, said the administration will still aim to boost Job Creation, even in an environment where the Republican-led House is calling for deep spending c...

Lightning Round: The Party of Epistemological Relativism.
Democrats certainly lack the message discipline Republicans have, but it wouldn't hurt to remind everyone that Republicans do not care about the Deficit. They rely on gimmicks to falsely claim the ACA explodes the Deficit. They are repeatedly on record voting for policy that increases the Deficit. They ignore CBO scores that disprove their nonsensical theories of economics. Despite all this, a myth persists concerning "fiscally responsible" Republicans. It would be nice if, you know, this easil...

Nagging Questions As Ted Williams Saga Unfolds
In this photo taken in late December, 2010, Ted Williams holds a sign advertising his smooth radio voice near a highway ramp in Columbus, Ohio. Why come to grips with a big, messy social problem like Homelessness? So much easier — isn’t it? — to shower job offers, cash payments and network-TV time on one Homeless guy who happens to have a really nice voice? This is perfect: the low-cost, feel-good way of addressing America’s nagging ills, just in time for the small-govern...

Andrew Wakefield's Lethal Legacy
On Wednesday, the British Journal of Medicine published the first of several articles detailing the systematic Fraud Andrew Wakefield engaged in writing a study in 1998 claiming measles-mumps-rubella Vaccine triggered Autism in 12 Children. News outlets have posted accounts of the Fraud as 'breaking news." They also note Wakefield's false research led to fear of vaccines and to kids dying from lack of shots. Wakefield's Fraud is beside the point. He was able to do so much damage for so long be...

Journal: Study Linking Vaccine to Autism Fraud
A new report says Dr. Andrew Wakefield and his colleagues altered facts about patients in their study linking Autism to the MMR Vaccine....

State Department warns contacts in leaked cables
WASHINGTON -- The State Department has warned hundreds of Human Rights Activists, foreign government officials and businesspeople identified in leaked diplomatic cables of potential threats to their safety and moved a handful of them to safer locations, administration officials said Thursday. The operation, which involves a team of 30 in Washington and embassies from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, reflects the administration's fear that the disclosure of cables obtained by the organization Wikileaks ...

Will Autism Fraud Report Boost Vaccines?
Atlanta — This week more shame was heaped upon the discredited British researcher whose work gave rise to the childhood-vaccines-cause-autism movement, as a prominent medical journal published a report that the man had faked his data. But will it make a difference? Some believe the latest news will finally destroy the reputation of researcher Andrew Wakefield and put an end to the claim of scientific underpinnings for the anti-vaccine movement. "We hope that declaring the paper a Fraud will ...

'Blue Valentine' captures marital agony
The Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling marital drama "Blue Valentine" is agonizing to watch yet relentlessly compelling, even illuminating, playing almost like a sober documentary rather than a narrative film. Though fictional, "Blue Valentine" is a document of sorts, a chronicle of a crumbling marriage that often feels as honest and painful as if it were a nonfiction film about real people putting each other through absolute hell. That sense of Eavesdropping authenticity results from the commi...

Vaccines and autism: Game and setbut not match until we earn patients trust
On the same day, I saw Mitch Daniels giving interviews saying that we need to confront the high costs of end of life care , and I heard that the British Medical Journal has finally retracted Andrew Wakefield’s notorious Vaccine-autism study as fraudulent. Mark Kleiman declares “Game, set, and match,” in response to this news. These headlines might seem unrelated. I think they are connected. Both headlines are welcome. Yet I fear that both seem like more of a victory for sanity ...

StupidiNews: Bon Is Worried
Straight from the headlines and into my list of things to stew on at night when I can't sleep. (CNN) -- A large number of dead birds were found in the city of Falköping, Sweden, on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, according to the Swedish National Veterinary Institute.That has me worried. That some are trying to dismiss this as firework trauma or similar has me even more worried. (CNN) -- Authorities in Maryland are investigating the deaths of about 2 million fish in Chesapeake Bay.Oka...

Medical Journal: Original study linking vaccine to autism was fraud
LONDON -- The first study to link a childhood Vaccine to Autism was based on doctored information about the Children involved, according to a new report on the widely discredited research....

Vaccine Study Not Just Bad Science, But Fraud, Says the British Medical Journal
The BMJ's article on Andrew Wakefield's study linking Autism to the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) Vaccine certainly makes fascinating, if sickening, reading. Literally sickening. If the author is correct, Wakefield deliberately falsified data in order to enrich himself from parents looking to bring a Lawsuit. Thanks in part to this now-discredited study, a lot of parents refuse to vaccinate their Children--and as a result, diseases like pertussis are on the rise. About thirty people a year now d...

A post about a post about autism (which Im sure youre sick of hearing about)
The last couple days have been hard for me, at least on the Internet.  Another story about the notorious Wakefield study broke yesterday, and I tried to bite my tongue through tweets, posts and links that I knew weren’t true.  Or at least accurate or fair.  A lot of it was coming from friends on the right, friends that have been so supportive of Lord of the Flies. The Vaccine debate just makes me really sad.  It’s not debated fairly by either side, and it’s ...

Examiner Local Editorial: Inaccurate textbooks reflect dumbed-down curriculum
Other texts got Mount Vernon and Monticello mixed up and stated that the colonists were the ones wearing the red coats during the Revolutionary War. In response, the Virginia Department of Education announced a "new" textbook review process that will require publishers to certify that their instructional material has been vetted by "competent authorities who vouch for their accuracy." Apparently the old textbook review process did not include competent authorities who could vouch for the accurac...