Hey, remember Desiree Jennings? The aspiring NFL cheerleader who was crippled by dystonia after she got a flu shot? Well, it turns out that her condition is most likely psychogenic, has nothing to do with a flu shot whatsoever, and now she’s going through a “miraculous” recovery at the hands of a quack doctor who has in the past injected his patients with urine.

It’s all covered in this Respectful Insolence blog post in such thorough detail that I don’t even know what I could possibly pull as a blockquote to sum it up quickly. But long story short: stupid people — in this case, the practitioners and adherents of pseudo-science or those who fear medical vaccines — win again. They always win. (See also: Jeff Dunham’s success.)

But if there’s a silver lining here (besides Desiree recovering, that is), it’s that we can finally laugh at her Inside Edition story set to “Walk it Out” completely free of guilt. It’s the little victories.

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Don’t laugh at this. DO. NOT. LAUGH. This is a terrible, sad story, and I would never want anyone I know to be afflicted with such a crippling neurological disorder.

In fact, when I first saw the video above, my biggest fear was that someone on the Internet would– oh no. No. No no no no no no no. Read the rest of this entry »