So why is Wakefield's supposed conflict of interest (he consulted with lawyers suing the vaccine issue) proof that he must be a fraud, yet Offit's much more serious conflict is ignored.

Disclosure. Wakefield hid his CoI while Offit is open about his.

You can trust big pharma corps

Not. They're in it for the money. And they're corporations, meaning they don't have to face any real accountability.

Yeah except that is not true. If there was a link they would be litigated into bankruptcy. If there was a cover up involving children like this there would be 50 state AG lining up to prosecute anyone and everyone they could make a case against. And they dont really make much money at all on vaccines especially compared to the RandD cost to bring to market and the lost OC.

there are a HUGE number of examples where Big Pharma, Big Medicine, and Big-Ego doktors introduced 'the next big thing' or panacea, only to find out a year, 10 years, a generation later, that there was some major problems they either squelched or didn't know about (*AND* -since they are under the thrall of korporations, they *DON'T* want to know about any problems)...

First a question, why do crazy people always spell worlds to look as evil as possible? I am somewhat surprise that there was not an overstanding in their someplace.

Second. Where are these huge numbers of examples that you are talking about? For the minor issues of knowledge yes we know more today than 10 years ago and more 10 years ago than 20 years ago because there is research going on and being released. Science is about the best aviabile evidence today it is always open to new and better theories based on new evidence.

Personally, I generally trust the parents who say that a vaccine caused or triggered their child's autism.

Yes because parents are experts in chemistry including an advance knowledge of organic chemistry, along with having expertise in physiology, neurology, childhood development, childhood psychology, and environmental science because they watch Oprah.

I find it disgusting that several people have ignored the victim of this crime, a poor 15 year old orphan, and want her assailant let free. This assailant did not just sexually abuse this girl but they than trafficked child porn photos to other minors, other victims. Who cares that the child pornographer is the victim them self someone needs to be punished, is that not the correct line from the radfems/bs fems/pomo fems/american fems?

Less than 4 months ago there was a story posted on Salon about a dumb kid that was sent naked pics from his ex girlfriend who was underage and the consensus opinion of the readers was the kid should be in jail and on the list but I guess being a female makes all the different. BS feminism, women all rights and privileges but no responsibility.

Dropping Firewire from a laptop is changing the industry? This is a feature that Lenvo, HP nor Dell feel the need to advertise as a major feature and you have to dig deep to find if a lap top has it or not. Firewire is used by what 20 percent of the people at most for pretty much only 2 applications, external hard drives and some camcorders. The number of people using firewire on laptops are probably even less than that number. Almost every external hard drive that has firewire also has a USB port a port and most consumer camcorders are now shipping with USB. This will have no effect on the industry in anyway except to push the few thousand professional video editors that only use laptops to some other high end laptop solution from someone like Alienware or HP.

This being Broadsheet a section of Salon one of the leading internet based news groups there is of course no actual reporter done. If there was it Kate would probably be amazed to know that over the last month that Obama has gained support in every Demo group except for one, Rural Women. Yes even those mean and evil NASCAR dads are moving towards Obama and not memorized by the totally GILF Palin. An example of this was on this weekends edition of Now on PBS where they showed a family that should be a slam dunk republican votes and it was the husband that is thinking of voting for Obama while the wife thinks he is for all intents and purpose the anti-christ.

Get your own house in order and stop the man hating.

Enough people already pointed out far you are reading into the lily being used to push virginity. But, I want to accept your theory that the marketing department picked the name because of its symbolism to virginity. What is wrong with that?

The suggested age bracket for the product is 3+ and is put out by the Playskool division so lets put an extremely high end for the age when a kid will stop playing and say 9 or 10. Why would it be wrong to say sex is bad for this age group? Personally I think there is something wrong with anyone in this age group having sex and I am all for all the "perversions" one can dream up between consenting adults. I have no problem with teenagers having sex with each other either. But, I do draw a line at 9 and 10 year olds having sex and especially pre schoolers having sex. Sorry, call me a prude if you must.