Maher really came out of this looking like a jackass.

You "don't think so", Bill, but then again that's why you don't have to go to college to be a smarmy TV pundit but you do have to go to be a doctor

Bill Maher is absolute proof that just because someone is an atheist, it doesn't make them smart. Maher is a braying jackass when it comes to vaccines. He honestly thinks that viruses can be cured by eliminating "toxins" and that "western medicine" isn't always the answer. What an ignorant asshole.

Full disclosure: I am an atheist, and I plan to get the h1n1 vaccine with it comes to my area. I also plan to cough in Maher's face should I ever meet him in real life.

No one is schooling anyone on anything in this clip. Frist might have words that make some logical sense coming out of his mouth, but those words are light years away in sentiment from the man they are coming from. He is not a good doctor, he is not a sane, intelligent voice in the debate. He is a GOP asshat whose moderate views on on the healthcare bill have made people forget what a shit he really is. If nothing else, he was one of the many who exploited the Terry Schiavo case for cheap political points. Apparently medical science wasn't to be listened to on THAT occasion. If Obama himself were somehow personally responsible for the H1N1 vaccination program in some way, you can be damn sure this guy would be out there talking about how "suspicion is good."
He has also been one of main figures in opposing sex education, condom programs, and anything having to do with contraception or abortion citing "abstinence" as the only true way to prevent STDs, and has campaigned on phony, made up stats about how "condoms don't help at all."
And that's just health-related issues. That's great if you dislike Maher, but all the people now suddenly hitching their wagon to Frist because "OH COOL HE TOTALLY SAID SOMETHING AT SOMEONE I DISAGREE WITH" need a serious reality check.

TV Host/Comedian Maher has important, well documented opinions about epidemiology and vaccination!

Seriously, Bill? Your best shot is a quote from fifty years ago? In a field where a citation from five years ago would be considered grossly outdated?

Bill just proves that even a complete moron can tell that organized religion is bullshit. To bad he's made a religion out of his atheism.

I like Bill Maher because he's one of the only liberal commentator with any balls and isn't ashamed to be considered liberal. That said, he does have some wacky views on medicine and health and is often a huge douche.

But still he will never reach the douche levels attained on a daily basis by Hannity, Rush, O'Reilly and Beck. And at least the left's douche bag is funny.

Fuck anti-vaccers, and fuck Bill Maher for publicizing such dangerously stupid views.

My mom and I talked briefly about the vaccination issue. Shes with Bill Maher in this case. Her and people like her seem to think that because H1N1 "hasn't killed that many people" and because it's "just another influenza virus" that somehow it is mostly harmless and will go away.

And then the ignorant notion that vaccines cause the illness they claim to prevent is sometimes part of that, usually with people who use "alternative" methods to deal with their illnesses. My mother for example had Limes disease and claims she was almost killed by the doctor prescribing her too much anti-biotics.

Her disease is currently in remission and I don't know the finer details of the story, but the point is a lot of people who feel they have been wronged, have been wronged, or know people that have been wronged by modern medicine tend to dismiss a lot of what doctors say.

A peer-reviewed medical journal is hard as fuck to beat. One of the better points is that H1N1 hits young people harder than anything doctors have seen thus far, that alone is incredibly significant. Moreover if we don't eliminate it now it could mutate into something far more serious.

I don't know if he was actually "schooled" in anything in this video, but Bill Maher did school me once in a very important concept : That calling yourself "liberal" or "conservative" is irrelevant. If nothing else, this man goes a long way towards showing that partisan distinctions are erroneous and foster a climate of personal ignorance and self destructive revenge motivated "morality" for no greater purpose than that of gladiatorial spectacle for the sake of feeling good when the other side fails everyone equally.

He has no idea he shows these things, but that's okay, so long as these things are shown.

I like how Bill Maher almost asked near the end "But why do we get Cancer anyways". Doesn't know how cancer works, but is giving you advice on your immune system. I hope he gets Swine Flu.

Has Maher ever been funny? In every show I've ever seen him he's just a huge smarmy dick uttering stale non-jokes.

On top of it all though, he's a huge dick who's also endangering people's lives with his bad advice. If there's any justice in the world he'll come down with a severe case of swine flu.

I've also never seen him where he wasn't being a petulant asshole.