Morton's Demon - a hypothetical creature that a scientist named Glenn R. Morton described as an illustration of the power of confirmation bias - is like a disease. I believe the only reason it is not considered a disorder is because it is so widespread that it is considered a normal hazard of living. The true danger of living with Morton's Demon is its contagion: once a false idea takes root, it is nearly impossible to change

Andrew Wakefield fabricated test results for money and fame, and for a while, people believed him. When Wakefield was exposed as a fraud, the newspapers that had proclaimed in large, friendly letters on their front pages that "vaccines cause autism!" published retractions in print too small to read on page 31C, if at all

Now that Oprah Winfrey has given Jenny McCarthy

an even larger platform from which to spew material for the demons

I wonder how many children will have to die for McCarthy to realize how many people she has helped to kill