I agree with this.
I like Ken; I like Mayim; I liked Buzzy. Most of the guest hosts were fine. I’m not going to be mad at anybody for who they pick, or for who they don’t pick.
I had no idea. Which leads me to believe I have also been guilty of horrendous color coordination.
Hey, that’s as good a theory as any other.
I said don’t get me started on the brown suit! I got PTSD from that you know.
She got me to stop watching The Big Bang Theory and Jeopardy!, so she’s got that going for her.
Your color coordination seems ok, but after you had your legs all stretched out you need longer trousers. You really shouldn’t be showing that much of your socks to the general public. Hie thee to a tailor and they’ll fix you right up.
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Jeopardy! is a show about facts, about authority. The face of the show shouldn’t be someone who blatantly disregards the former and misrepresents herself as the latter.[/quote]
While we have discovered that Alex held some distinct political views he did not let them intrude into the game.
A host’s political views are one thing. Pushing misinformation about vaccines is quite another.
Honestly, I’d like to see some cites regarding “pushing misinformation about vaccines.” As I understand it, she waited until her children were older than is usually recommended to have them vaccinated for the usual childhood diseases, but did eventually. I don’t find that particularly objectionable.
And I don’t believe she has ever spoken out against COVID vaccination. Feel free to prove me wrong.
We don’t know if she ever got her kids vaccinated, other than for COVID-19. What we do know is that she repeatedly spread falsehoods about the vaccines being dangerous, and tried to make out like it should be a parent’s choice whether to get vaccinated. She is what is known in woo-fighting circles as a soft antivaxxer, meaning she will “just ask questions” and otherwise spread misinformation, but then hedges when she’s called on it. She’s one that tries to give some respectability to a “middle ground.” It’s very much the type who tells you to “do your own research” while directing you to quacks and charlatans on how to do it. It’s still all about undermining the actual science.
That’s already a bad thing to do. But it’s even worse for someone who likes to tout their medical science credentials. And, despite being called on it many times, she refuses to actually repudiate her claims.
Here was the general understanding of her back in 2015, long before she could blame people’s dislike of her on being a woman in a role previously held by a man:
And I continue to point out that she has 3 things against her, not just one. She also pushes snake oil brain supplements–which the science had already shown were snake oil before she took the gig–and directly uses her degree to hawk them. And she is an anti-sex feminist who wrote an entire essay arguing she was better than the #MeToo victims because she didn’t give her sexuality to anyone.
Her saying she actually got a COVID-19 vaccine for her kids (in rather cagey language that didn’t specify which ones) was her trying to misdirect people. As are her attempts to insinuate that people dislike her due to misogyny.
I’m trying, I really am.
I’ve followed links, and links within links, and have found many many people telling me what Mayim Bialik believes and how terrible it is. But I have found precious little of what Bialik herself has actually said or written that rises to the level of unacceptable in my view.
I’ll save my outrage for someone more deserving.
Maybe nobody wanted her.
We’ve done this to death, but here goes. This is a video posted by her own account, where she goes on to explain that she’s not anti-vax. She is, she just claims that certain vaccines have convinced her they are warranted. Based on her other statements, I’m not even sure if I believe that she’s been vaccinated for CoVID, but she’s an anti-vaxxer either way. The VERY FIRST LINK that she posts under
For more resources on vaccines, check out the links below:
… is to the page below on the Children’s Health Defense website. Yes, Robert F (which apparently stands for “fucking child-killing”) Kennedy, Jr.'s very own organization. If you don’t know where he stands on vaccinations, I’ll wait until you educate yourself on the topic.
Hmm, I never said she spoke out against COVID vaccination. She’s widely recognized for having spread vaccine misinformation and for promoting anti-vaxx books by Bob Sears and others. (You might recall Sears as the doc who compared anti-vaxxers to Jews persecuted by Nazis. He was also put on probation by the Medical Board of California.)
Public health experts say that mandatory vaccinations on the schedule recommended by the CDC is crucial. Bialik has touted delayed vaccination (widely acknowledged as dangerous) and has refused some vaccines for her kids:
Children get “way too many vaccines in this country” and that “the medical community often operate[s] from a place of fear in order to make money.” (source)
Misinformation: too many vaccines.
My children may not have had every one of the vaccinations that your children have, but my children are vaccinated. (source)
Misinformation: it’s OK to skip some recommended vaccines.
Bialik, like most anti-vaxxers and Q-Anon-ers, urges parents to do the research, but there’s a definite bias:
Bialik has, of course, urged parents to “do your research,” but she follows that with “a post that appeared to advocate more explicitly for vaccine “freedom”
source (“Vaccine freedom” is a popular anti-vaxxer term.)
And of course Bialik helpfully includes Sears’ book in that research.
And one more:
We are a non-vaccinating family, but I make no claims about people’s individual decisions. We based ours on research and discussions with our pediatrician.
(source). (bolding mine)
I hope that’s enough.
It is certainly enough to explain why people disagree with her views.
I’m not saying I agree either; it’s just that none of this registers very high on my rage meter. Certainly not enough to disqualify her from hosting a game show.
“Here’s a dumb question from a neuroscientist…”
A person who is entitled to brag seldom feels the need to.
Unless one is a MD or Ph.D.
That’s DOCTOR [lastname].
A Doctor or PhD who gratuitously and unnecessarily keeps reminding us of their title/credential is bragging.
Dr. Frasier Crane asked me to ask you to take that back.
Her New York Times op-ed more or less says that.
Those of us in Hollywood who don’t represent an impossible standard of beauty have the “luxury” of being overlooked and, in many cases, ignored by men in power unless we can make them money.
She’s well aware of that. She also mentions dressing modestly and not being flirtatious with men. All of that kind of led to a bit of a backlash, as it reeks of victim-blaming.
I am a defender of her as Jeopardy! host, but yeah, it sure is victim blaming.
And while she has a point about the culture, the “impossible standard of beauty” must not be all that impossible, given the number of women harassed every day, week, month and year. Just not her, it seems.
I like the way she dresses, but I’m color-blind 
She looks a lot hotter than her Amy Farrow-Fowler character that’s for sure.
AFF’s extra padding might have something to do with that.