Pitchfork points to a doozy of a post Smashing Pumpkins leader Billy Corgan put up on his paranoid spiritualist website, Everything From Here To There. He is coming out as one among those who The Awl's Tom Scocca eloquently refers to as "degenerate idiots who deserve to get polio and live out their days in iron lungs while Child Protective Services takes away their children to be properly raised." Corgan writes: "I for one will not be taking the vaccine. I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apperatus behind it all to push it on us thru fear. This is not judgment; it is a personal decision based on research, intuition, conversations with my doctor and my 'family'. If the virus comes to take me Home, that is between me and the Lord." READ MORE

The AIDS Vaccine Conference begins today in Paris, and so we are treated to this AIDS vaccine op-ed in today's Times on the topic of that recent study we've been ignoring. It's not a crazy argument that the writer-who is Mr. Let's Make a Vaccine Foundation-is making: that we shouldn't dismiss that Thai AIDS vaccine study, even though it didn't actually work. READ MORE