Vaccines are good. Infectious diseases are no longer the leading cause of death like they were a century ago. Sure, they are also big business now, as marketing for HPV and Shingles can attest, but that doesn't mean just anything can or should be a vaccine.Except in Canada. Health Canada has licensed 10 products with a homeopathic preparation called “influenzinum” for "preventing the flu...
read moreIn December, when a Republican berated the CDC for not finding links between vaccines and autism, science media was outraged. Yet for years prior to that, Democrats had made the same claim with no mention of their political affiliation at all. In that same hearing Democrats did it and corporate science media never discussed it. Only the Republican got attention, just like only...
read moreEveryone should have a home where they feel comfortable. If you want to carry a six-shooter on the street, move to Kennesaw, Georgia, outside Atlanta - Gun Town, USA (bonus: only 4 gun murders in 30 years, so you will be safe)(1) and if you like to ban everything and hang out with anti-science crackpots, there's always San Francisco. read...
read moreBob Geldof, former singer with The Boomtown Rats, is better known today for his work with poor people. Long after it stopped being fashionable, he has continued to help starving people in Ethiopia.It's not the only way he is unfashionable - so is his old-school liberalism, which doesn't care about labels or circling the wagons for Big Tent left-wing causes or being against anyone on the other...
read moreWhat do science media and politics of 2013 share in common with 2006?Anti-science beliefs among the public? Check.Scientists willing to call them out? Check.Scientists and science media noting the common political affiliation of anti-science offenders? Not check.The anti-GMO movement has far more representation on the left than the anti-hESC contingent ever had on the right. Ditto for...
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