One of the reasons that so many parents came to believe that mercury in vaccinations was causing their children’s autism is often over looked. Most people focus on the increased rates of diagnosis of autism, both here and in countries that more recently adopted vaccines with mercury preservatives. But Evidence of Harm layouts another, more [...]
Archive for July, 2005
Evidence of Harm, Cptrs 2-4: Connections and Personalities
Posted in Books, Evidence of Harm, Health, Legal Issues on July 31, 2005 | Comments Off
Welcome to the Neighborhood
Posted in Science on July 30, 2005 | Comments Off
A group of astronomers has discovered a tenth planet Larger than Pluto and far beyond its orbit, shining so brightly an amateur stargazer could have spotted it years ago, there is a 10th planet, astronomers announced late Friday. Calling the still-unnamed world a planet likely will stir intense debate among some astronomers who argue that [...]
Evidence of Harm — Lessons
Posted in Books, Evidence of Harm, Health, Legal Issues on July 30, 2005 | Comments Off
The introduction and the first chapter of Evidence of Harm have three lessons to teach us. The first is the least surprising: drug companies and the Republicans have attempted to remove even the possibility that they could be held liable for any wrong doing with regard to vaccinations and autism. They quietly slipped in a [...]
The New Know Nothings
Posted in Iraq, Politics, Terrorism on July 30, 2005 | Comments Off
Salon has a look at three books that deal with the question of why terrorists become terrorists. The author is semi-dismissive of Pate’s Dying to Win because the statistical set is probably too small to support the claim that he has proven anything. I have purchased the book and will be reporting on it as [...]
Helping Hacket
Posted in Politics on July 29, 2005 | Comments Off
The DCCC is now in the Hacket race. They wanted to stay low until they knew what, if anything, the NRCC was going to do to help stave of defeat in OH-2. Now that the NRCC has gone live, the DCCC has also.
Meet "Richard" Cooper
Posted in Doggie Bloggin' on July 28, 2005 | 5 Comments »
This stray dog, who I’m calling “Richard” for the moment we’re calling “Cooper,” was found roaming the parking lot of my neighborhood’s supermarket. He had a flea collar but no other collar and no identification. It appears as though someone had at some point set fire to his face. Literally. UPDATE: It’s just a really [...]
Our host had a disk failure last night. They got it restored this afternoon, but it appears as if we lost the upgrade and all the changes I made to it. I will be spedning time getting all that fixed, so no posts by me for the rest of the day.
Nannys and Class Privilege
Posted in Culture, Economics, Legal Issues, Privacy on July 18, 2005 | Comments Off
There is quite the commotion about a piece in the NY Times “explaining” why a certain Helaine Olen fired her nanny. The piece is an … lets be kind … interesting … window into age, class, and sexual politics in this country. Atrios has a great round up of posts on this issue, with Bitch [...]
War on Terrorists Being Lost in Iraq
Posted in Iraq, Politics, Terrorism on July 18, 2005 | Comments Off
Why are there so many suicide bombings in Iraq? Because the US is occupying the country: However, interrogations of nearly 300 Saudis captured while trying to sneak into Iraq and case studies of more than three dozen others who blew themselves up in suicide attacks show that most were heeding the calls from clerics and [...]
It's a Conspiracy!
Posted in Iraq, Legal Issues, Politics on July 18, 2005 | Comments Off
So I see that Mark Steyn is peddling the notion that Plame wasn’t really a covert operative, so Rove could not have done anything wrong. Steyn has, in other words, apparently gone insane. The CIA referred the matter to the Justice Department. The Justice Department assigned the case — 18 or so months ago — [...]
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