Its actions tell me that it's disavowing Jake, trying to sever ties with him, and, in general, throwing him under the bus in the same way that Jake threw his old friends under the bus, betraying their trust in a truly egregious fashion by publishing their private e-mails.
Now, the antivaccine Frankenstein that created Jake is striking back since its creation has turned on it. Jake also did this all with a truly nauseatingly self-righteous attitude, in which he is completely incapable of ever acknowledging even the slightest error or wrongness in anything he has done.
#I cannot get into the echo chanber strike for free#
Later, he developed a second trick, namely showing up at the talks of those he detests (like Paul Offit) in a truly creepy stalkerish manner, all to badger them and tyr to get them to say something that he could report on later in order to embarrass them, all the while painting himself as the brave maverick martyr for free speech who was kicked out of or denied entry to these talks because he speaks Truth to power. Jake started out as a one trick pony, his one trick being to create hilariously inept and tortuous " six degrees of separation"-style conspiracy theories in which he'd link his target to-of course!-big pharma. His paranoia thus nurtured, Jake became the Boy Wonder (or, to anyone with a sense of rationality-which most definitely includes no one at Generation Rescue, SafeMinds, or Age of Autism-the Boy Blunder), churning out antivaccine propaganda screeds and character assassinations of those deemed the enemies of the antivaccine movement, in particular Paul Offit. They nurtured his anger and resentment, turning it into paranoia, egging him on in the echo chamber that is the antivaccine crank blog Age of Autism, and praising him to high heaven for what a "great reporter" he is and what a "great job" he did after every new attack he launched on their enemies. The reason was that Jake had become very, very unhappy with the antivaccine leaders who created him, or at least who created the blogging phenomenon that is Jake Crosby, Internet Detective and Disher of Dirt. He's the guy whom I likened to an antivaccine Frankenstein's monster turning on his creators last week. On the other hand, as bizarre as it sounds, I actually do feel a bit sorry for the main combatant, Jake Crosby. On the one hand, I'm seriously tempted to get out the popcorn, sit back, and enjoy the show that is the internecine conflict going on in the antivaccine movement right now.
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