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Friday, May 8, 2009


A long fight - A Man With A PhD

vaccinate by lu_lu
Giving vaccines a shot in the arm:
[Via Bad Astronomy]
Reading through the truly awful antivax responses to my post where I state flatly and with conviction and evidence that the antivax movement is killing people, I was stunned to see Toni McCaffery had posted a response as well. Ms. McCaffery is the mother of Dana, the infant who died ...

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Anti-vax purity has real world consequences, such as the death of children too young to be vaccinated surrounded by too many who refused. The loss of herd immunity is one of the great tragedies of the modern world, since it is s easily maintained.

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A new approch to learning - A Man With A PhD

ferrofluid by jurvetson
MIT President Sees "Third Revolution" in Life Sciences:
[Via AAAS News - RSS Feed]
MIT President Susan Hockfield, at AAAS Forum, Envisions "Third Revolution" in Life Sciences

The convergence of life sciences with physical and engineering sciences could have dramatic human benefits, MIT President Susan Hockfield said at the AAAS Forum on S&T Policy.

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This may get beyond me very rapidly but the idea of a third revolution, tying biology and physics in ways to create new batteries and human therapies, sounds very much like science fiction. I'll have to see just what is going on.

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