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Vaccines and autism: Collected links
At the breakfast table this morning this subject came up, so I decided to put together this collection. It did not take long:
- AntiAntiVax: The Truth About The Evils Of Vaccination. A summary of the real medical evidence.
- Why do media report ‘the other side’ of scientific fact? by haddayr
- 5 Things The Media Loves Pretending Are News.
- An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All
- Jenny McCarthy: spreading more dangerous misinformation
- Why Does the Vaccine/Autism Controversy Live On?”
This is not an academic issue for me and mia_mcdavid.
Also, I have a big personal issue with the idea that anecdotes and media fluff are the same as real science: Back in the ’90’s somebody who followed that stuff once suggested that I had abused my children.
Revenge of the nerd
At Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (somewhat NSFW)
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The warming Arctic
The limits of being period correct
After 2 feet of ripping the 5″-thick cherry, I gave up. I am generally a stubborn person, but the sawing was too slow-going to be practical. It was going to take an hour of ripping for each slab.
Senior Editor Glen Huey came into the shop. He raised one eyebrow, but he didn’t say anything about the sweat drips all over the slabs.
“I’m gonna cheat,” I said, “and I need your help.”
We humped each slab onto the band saw. In less than five minutes the deed was done. I can rationalize this a million ways: This is work for a pitsawyer. The lumberyard would have dressed these slabs for the pre-industrial woodworker.
But the bottom line was that ripping these slab[s] wasn’t fun. And that’s where I drew the line. The purists can feel free to throw stones now.
A Clockwork Orange — Now for real
This is weird and scary.
Weaponizing Mozart: How Britain is using classical music as a form of social control
Via Slashdot
The unmaking of history
The Skansen Bench
Popular Woodworking – I Can Do That: Skansen Bench
Note that the design is period for Clann Tartan, though it is a little heavy for transporting to events.
The reports of its death are greatly exaggerated
US Manufacturing is alive and well. The real issue is manufacturing employment, which is dropping like a stone. And the reason for the drop is an increase in productivity.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 