He spoke tonight at Portland State University, sponsored by the Oregonians for Science and Reason.  The popular assumptions he challenged were the idea that fish fall from the sky because of waterspouts, swamp gasses cause lamplike lights, prevalent anti-government conspiracy theories,  the reliability of polygraph testing and the Myers Briggs ( Read more... )

THE MISTRUST OF SCIENCE

By Atul Gawande , JUNE 10, 2016

The following was delivered as the commencement address at the California Institute of Technology, on Friday, June 10th.

from http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-mistrust-of-science accessed 6.21.16( Text behind cut )

Here's a list of the excipients in US vaccines, compiled by the CDC and last updated almost a year ago.

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendices/B/excipient-table-2.pdf

Here's the article and poll in the BMJ: http://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h3735
( Thoughts )

SOURCE
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/01/06/dr-shade-on-mercury-exposure.aspx?e_cid=20130106_SNL_Art_1
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http://www.medpagetoday.com/InfectiousDisease/Vaccines/36480

Looks like we'll keep having mercury in multiple-use vials of vaccines for the foreseeable future, because we don't have a better preservative to put in there, and not all nations have

And you thought you could trust a pharmaceutical company? LOL, probably not, you're smarter than that. GSK promoted off-label uses for two drugs, and didn't reveal safety information on another. (They make lots of vaccines, in case you don't know.) Scientific research done by corporations with a profit motive is guaranteed to be reported in a ( Read more... )

( notes )

As you may know I lean libertarian. I am skeptical whenever government authority is imposed. There has to be a good reason for government to exist, or to do anything at all. So it could come as a surprise to you that I think universal HPV vaccination is worth considering. I am sensitive to the argument by Andrew McCarthy that the state should ( Read more... )

About the bill they just passed ( Read more... )