Dennett has heart surgery after an aortic dissection, and gives thanks

... to his doctors. Here.

Late Note: Ronan in the comments points out this was in 2006. I think I was sleeping that year...

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I am off to a fun start here in Ireland, with a busy day yesterday. I was on the Tom McGurk radio show, which is summarized by a listener.
As hard as it is for me to believe when I look back at it, I've been writing about the antivaccine movement now for more than seven years here on this blog and combatting it online for at least a decade now. I like to think that over the years my response has evolved somewhat.
I did this last year and the year before and it seemed like an interesting and maybe even useful thing to continue this year.

Can you note that you're referring to his 2006 dissection. Reading the headline, I thought you were first with the news of a second one!