But please, please note that "correlation does not imply causation" can and often is itself oversold, misinterpreted, and endorsed by people who don't understand it.http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011…

Vitamin E is at the bottom, but this came out two days ago:

think it says more about the singularity of our perceptions nowadays—how we choose to view a singular aspect of the whole and our smartphones insulate us into that little fucking bubble from the life in front of us. There's a whole play performed in front of them and they just single out their kid.

Focusing on fear-mongering and smear words makes you look just as bad as Fox News, just a nut on the other extreme. Well done.

i am always surprised to see an intelligent person use a smear word. "vaxxer" huh?

this is a bit propagandist. An anti-vaxxer could argue just as easily that pro-vaxxers are responsible for super-viruses since viruses also mutate because of the vaccinations. Bacteria can sometimes work the same way, thus the news of the super gonorrhea strand that popped up. because we were aggressively killing it…

You can certainly make a public good argument for universal vaccinations but you can also basically argue that there are no truly private decisions anywhere in society. Where do you want to draw the line? Maybe we should outlaw skiing, for example. It drives up my health insurance rates because it is a dangerous…

I don't know enough epidemiology to say which is the bigger danger but I am not talking about hypochondriacs. I am talking about people who are genuinely ill but have been led to believe that their illness requires antibiotics when they will do nothing and physicians that would rather just write the prescription than…

yes, put the parents in prison, make the children wards of state to be raised in (tax paid) foster homes and then force the kids to have immunizations- all because their trust in the western medical system is not as devout as yours.

I'm in the humanities, so forgive me if I'm off here, but I believe that the overuse of antibiotics in factory farming is on a massively larger scale than overuse by hypochondriac humans.

Thats how the author interpreted this one study. But according to that statement it is due to a variety (vacc and non vacc) that allows for the virus to proliferate across the population. Im not anti- vaccination. I just wonder how much of this problem is man made. There is much scientific research, across many…

"Its ability to change between high-affinity and low-affinity configurations gives it legs, and it travels through the population, adding on more mutations and more resistance. It's the alternation that drives the drift..." According to that statement, the title of the article could also be, Pro-vaxxers might be…

There's no doubt in my mind civilization as we know it will end before 2100. It will be absolutely necessary for it to end so that a resource-based economy can be created out of the wreckage of over-population due to uncontrolled capitalism. The acquisition of money above has already been proven to be the bane of a…

Yeah, they're just like a Big Brother, looking after this little brother 8^)

Having conducted intensive research in this area, primarily the reading of Facebook posts from family, I can conclusively prove the human brain is not that complex. Many of them consist entirely of small rodents on a wheel circling endlessly around Fox News stories.

The only assumption I'm making is that you're a dick. I think it's a safe assumption.

Strangely I don't see anything futuristic there, unless your future includes collapse, decay and destruction. Of course, it is very likely that will not happen for a very long time. But China has been building its infrastructure... well... oddly. Plus it doesn't seem very sustainable, to me at any rate. They're…

It's also my favorite part of the entire movie.

I picked being an english major out of a desire to further hone my writing skills. I don't care about small grammatical errors in internet posts either, they're not worth the time. There are markets for copy-writing, content for websites, ad copy, etc. It is unfortunate that the better outlets for creative writers,…

dying laughing at this