Orac brings us a report from the front line of the anti-vaccination movement and shows how it's becoming even more hysterical. I'm very pleased to see that Time last week had a cover story about how the anti-vaccination movement is putting us all at risk.
How much do you think solving the world's worst problem would cost? Would you believe only $60 million a year? Eight hours of Iraq. That's how much it would cost to prevent the cognitive developmental diseases related to being malnourished in beta carotene and zinc to the 140 million children worldwide who lack them. Malnutrition, disease control, and access to education-- all relatively economically cheap (but sometimes politically expensive) problems that don't have quite the same cachet as worrying about carbon footprints. This is like exercise... we know how to stay healthy, we're just fatigued of hearing it.
Darwinism "serves the goals of global Jewery." And "When the Clinton White House made statements that they didn't like, what did Zionism do-- they sent him the Jewish Monica."
Because, you know, nothing is more important than bringing little Iraqi kids to Jesus. Yeah, that'll help our cause. I think any soldiers found doing this should be discharged immediately and dishonorably for failing to take their Soldier's Oath seriously.
A case from Tennessee of parents who created a proseltyzing parents group at public schools has been settled. Some of the quotes Ed Brayton collected are quite telling.
Brad DeLong brings us the greatest hits of the Republican spin machine explaining to us how McClellan was always a poor representative of the President's magnificent and eloquent leadership.
Wow. Apparently, there's a huge kerfluffle in the world of vertebrate paleontology, where a respected member of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History is accused of intellectual theft and publishing material without permission from the specimen holders-- and it looks like the professional review was stacked. It's a fascinating look at the ugly underbelly of the politics of science, the ferocious battle over grants and prestige.
Reagan's Director of the Budget brings us his tales of the Reagan White House, and how out of it Reagan really was. Cabinet members would regularly bring him a bamboozling array of facts and figures, and then point to one anecdote that would please him and point him in the direction of approving whatever it was that cabinet member wanted. The "magic asterisks" were footnotes that hid the actual costs of any operation from Reagan's eyes. (via Brad Delong)
I'm not sure where you got the idea that I wasn't going to do *any* vaccinations or even that I was avoiding issues but it is incorrect. In fact, if you actual read my post, you would see that I was going to double-check shots.. meaning someone's gotta get a shot.
Sure life is lethal. Doesn't mean I'm going to drink antifreeze just because I'm going to die anyway. But I suggest you do some research as to how many empty chambers there are before asking everyone to participate. Again, there is no magic of birth that allows a child to be safe from 87 times the RDI of mercury outside the womb rather than inside. I'm fortunate that California prohibited the stuff two years ago.
Do you have vaccinations for Hep A? Hep B? HPV? Malaria? If you answer no to any of those, why not? They all exist in the world.
I'm not sure where you got the idea that I wasn't going to do *any* vaccinations...
Ah yes. My apologies, mouth-or fingers-engaged before brain.
Do you have vaccinations for Hep A? Hep B? HPV? Malaria?
Hah! Actually, yes, yes, no vaccine and prophylaxis for 60 days. Also got smallpox, too. (Boy, was THAT fun. *stab*stab*stab* 20 friggen times with a bifuricated needle.)
I was on a supply ship, and we were in the Gulf and Africa.
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Re: vaccines
Date: 2008-06-03 07:07 pm (UTC)Sure life is lethal. Doesn't mean I'm going to drink antifreeze just because I'm going to die anyway. But I suggest you do some research as to how many empty chambers there are before asking everyone to participate. Again, there is no magic of birth that allows a child to be safe from 87 times the RDI of mercury outside the womb rather than inside. I'm fortunate that California prohibited the stuff two years ago.
Do you have vaccinations for Hep A? Hep B? HPV? Malaria? If you answer no to any of those, why not? They all exist in the world.
Re: vaccines
Date: 2008-06-04 04:45 am (UTC)Ah yes. My apologies, mouth-or fingers-engaged before brain.
Do you have vaccinations for Hep A? Hep B? HPV? Malaria?
Hah! Actually, yes, yes, no vaccine and prophylaxis for 60 days. Also got smallpox, too. (Boy, was THAT fun. *stab*stab*stab* 20 friggen times with a bifuricated needle.)
I was on a supply ship, and we were in the Gulf and Africa.