Bill Frist, a cardiothoracic surgeon, made a fool of himself by diagnosing intact brain function in Terry Shiavo because of an old video recording. Frist ignored the brain imaging documenting sevee cerebral tissue loss. Bill Mahrer does not trust Western medicine and has apparently come across a dietary, exercise and marijuana coonsumption regime that keeps the satirist healthy.

During the SARS outbreak, Mahrer essentially said that those who had fallen ill became ill because of a lack of adnerence to the Mahrer dietary regime. The science indicated that the risk of infection during air travel was based upon seaing arrangement. Sitting in the row with a SARS infected person or three rows in front or three rows in back of a SARS infected person on an airplane created the greatest risk of infection. Mahrer chose to ignore the science in favor of his personal belief system.

On his most recent show, Mahrer discussed the H1N1 vaccine with Bill Frist. Frist pointed out that the science indicated that pregnant women were at high risk of death if they contracted the H1N1 virus. Mahrer stated that he would not advise a pregnant woman to get vaccinated. To defend his position, Mahrer quoted a decades old statement about live vaccines from the late Jonas Salk.

The data suggests that a pregnant woman who becomes infected with H1N1 is more likely to die of her illness than a person undergoing triple bypass surgery for coronary artery disease. It is curous that on some scientific issues, Mahrer is as much of a Luddite as some religious Fundamentalists.

Mahrer made Frist appear to be the only rational person in the interview..

http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2009/10/extraordinary-death-toll-of-h1n1-in-pregnant-women.html