From 2006 to 2008, Orac regularly misspells "chiropractor." In 2006 we see "chiropracter" in body and headline. In 2007 one post contains both the "er" spelling and the correct spelling. A later post in 2007 uses "er." At the end of 2007 it becomes "or." Yay! Orac has finally figured it out. But not so fast, there, pardner. (Do I have enough commas in that? Maybe one more?) In 2008 we get an "or" in the headline and "er" in the body.

Doesn't it seem odd that a highly-educated man who is obsessed with chiropractors wouldn't be able to spell them? And even odder that the spelling would switch back and forth? It's almost as if, it's almost as if there was more than one person involved.

Rachel,

Gorski selectively moderates. If there is a point that he cannot refute, he will block the comment so that he can save face with his sycophants. He's done it to me, and he's done it to other commenters.

The majority of his brainless drivel is ad hominem and trying to present his own opinion and speculation as fact.

Talking about him, however, feeds his narcissism. Overall, though...he's a nobody.

Slightly unrelated, one of Orac's cheerleaders decided to attack Ben Swan's reporting of the CDC whistleblower affair with one of Orac's barf. Swann shot it done with this....

I was forwarded your email in regards to my Reality Check piece on the CDC. In the future, feel free to respond directly to me.

I see that you forwarded a blog from “scienceblogs.com” which you claim “refutes” the points made in my piece. After carefully reviewing the blog entry, I find that not only does it NOT refute a single fact from my story but that it resorts to the worst of all “journalistic practices”.

There is not one statement made in my piece that the writer of this blog, who by the way does not list their name and goes by Orac, is able to disprove or demonstrate how it was incorrectly represented. In addition, Orac, chooses not to bother dealing with the facts of my story and instead insults me repeatedly while making statements such as “I can’t help but interjecting here that if Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. thinks you’re telling the truth about vaccines, you really should reassess your reporting skills.” And “ Swann sounds like Rob Schneider ranting about the vaccine court,”

This attempted “smear by association” is once again a lazy attempt to ignore the fact that the writer cannot refute factually any fact raised during this report and instead resorts to name calling. As the adage goes, you know when you have won the argument when the other side resorts to name-calling.

As for the issue of vaccine court, the writer of this article (who again, does not bother to reveal their own name) doesn’t refute any statement I make about the hundreds of children every year injured by vaccines. He acknowledges that vaccine court exists and then assumes that I am against it?

I do want to point out that I personally am not “anti-vaccination” but I am pro-transparency when it comes to these issues. As a journalist, my job is to dig into stories. As I mentioned in my piece, I have requested sit-down interviews with Dr. Thompson and will continue to do so. My agenda is the truth and any evidence on either side of this debate is worth discussion.

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2015/11/02/ben-swann-on-the-cdctruth-rally-regurgitating-antivaccine-talking-points/

cmo: According to my calculations based upon current VAERS data, between 4 and 40 children die from vaccination per day (4.2 at 10% of actual incidents actually reported, and 42 at 1%). Between 980 and 9,800 reportable adverse events per day. Between 230 and 2,300 ER visits per day. Would Orac deny such numbers? They come from the government! And the "capture rate" (1%) from none other than Dr. David Kessler, former commissioner of the FDA, also the government!

Spelling has improved. At one time Orac thought it was "chiropracter."

I don't read Orac's blog. I don't need to be reassured that vaccines aren't dangerous. I don't need to read one more person who threatens to jail parents for not vaccinating when the problem is a failed vaccine. David Foster is, of course, right that allegations as serious as Thompson's deserves to be investigated. Are the phony scientists still quoting Dr. DeStefano's study as proof that vaccines don't cause autism. At the very least they should throw that study out the window, and it should not be included in any so called meta-study, that is, a study that clumps together a bunch of studies that are somehow inaccessible to anyone who doesn't have a Freedom of Information Act and a PhD in statistics. I guess the "ScienceBlogs" is on board for the goal of one in every two children in the USA having autism spectrum. Keep it up ding bat Orac--wait until there aren't enough working Americans for the government to pay your salary.

Bob Moffit says....

if it were Orac's true intention to debunk the allegations made by Dr Thompson .. and .. as he claims .. he has the clear and convincing "evidence" to prove it .. ORAC WOULD BE AMONG THE LOUDEST VOICES DEMANDING CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS TO EXPOSE DR. THOMPSON AS A FRAUD .. AND .. HIS ALLEGATIONS AS "LIES".

But he has Bob....

It’s time to take the gloves off when discussing this “CDC whistleblower.” William Thompson has become antivaccine. As difficult as that is to accept, it’s hard to come to any other conclusion, given his behavior. As a result, I’m starting to drift closer to the position of antivaccinationists on this, but for a different reason. I now want an investigation, if only to get Thompson’s butt on the stand for some cross-examination. He’s been silent for nearly a year. I want him to be forced to explain himself and back up his charges. I bet he can’t.

And later in the same blog he writes....

That’s why I’ve started to come around to the idea that a real investigation should be launched. However, Rep. Posey is as wrong a person to choose to do such an investigation as can be imagined given his antivaccine beliefs. In fact, given how political it all is, Congressional committees in general are the wrong tool for such an investigation. Maybe the FBI (i.e., the professionals) should get involved. After all, Thompson is basically accusing by insinuation that his co-authors committed a federal crime destroying documents. Then, at least, we’d know everything that Hooker and Wakefield have, Thompson would be forced to answer questions or take the 5th, and it would all be public record.

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2015/08/05/the-cdc-whistleblower-william-thompson-appears-to-have-gone-full-antivaccine/

That Orac would now gloats that nothing is being done about the CDC whistleblower demonstrates the height of his disingenuity, and the utter futility in taking anything he has to say seriously.

Orac says:

"Certainly, its key premise, that DeStefano et al showed that African American boys who receive the MMR earlier are at a much higher risk of autism than those who don’t and that the CDC covered it up, is not supported by evidence and rests on the misinterpretation of the DeStefano et al dataset."

Ah, yes .. if it were Orac's true intention to debunk the allegations made by Dr Thompson .. and .. as he claims .. he has the clear and convincing "evidence" to prove it .. ORAC WOULD BE AMONG THE LOUDEST VOICES DEMANDING CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS TO EXPOSE DR. THOMPSON AS A FRAUD .. AND .. HIS ALLEGATIONS AS "LIES".

That ORAC refuses to call for that Congressional hearing clearly indicates it is HE who fears the TRUTH .. not Dr. Thompson.

I would suggest Orac desperately needs to hear the wisdom of Budda .. who wrote;

"There are things that cannot be hidden long; the sun the moon .. and .. the TRUTH."

Terrific comment from David Foster. My only surprise is the so called 'ScienceBlogs' mods allowed it to be published below one of David Gorski's (Orac's) RI blogs.