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ugly_boy

This American Life

Dec 30, 2008 20:14

Anyone ever listen to This American Life on NPR? It's a truly amazing program. In the December 19 episode, Ruining it for the Rest of Us, one of the stories is about a recent outbreak of the completely preventable and almost obsolete measles virus in San Diego. Patient zero was an unvaccinated young boy who picked up the infection in Switzerland ( Read more... )

medicine, science, bad science

Comments 5

marixxa December 31 2008, 05:30:54 UTC

that water website is so ridiculously extensive, i can't stand to look at it long enough to properly make fun of it.

ugly_boy December 31 2008, 22:54:14 UTC

Um, yeah, it's pretty bad.

Masaru Emoto is the Japanese "scientist" who started this madness.

marixxa January 2 2009, 05:37:48 UTC

he's my new fave scientist.

m0053 December 31 2008, 06:54:02 UTC

Hahaha! Indeed scary and interesting at the same time. It would be absolutely horrible to be the ones infected, gah. Can't imagine. The flu was bad enough. I will always get a flu shot now.

ugly_boy December 31 2008, 22:48:28 UTC

I get a flu shot ever year, too. I work in a doctor's office so it's free for me, and recommended. But I think it's an important public health issue. Influenza is highly unlikely to kill me-I'm young, I have health insurance and a family doctor, live close to plenty of hospitals, and though not rich m parents would be able to take on the extra expense caused by a severe case. Unfortunately the same cannot be said to the thousands of infants, old people, homeless people and others who I come in contact with every day. Getting the shot not only spares me a week of misery and missed school, it takes one more link out of the chain.