If the files don’t show the whole picture, and you’d like to know the whole picture, why not take the knowledge about proper research into a complex scientific issue (which I’m sure you learned for your master’s) and dive deeper into the subject. You could look at the literature, ring up a couple of eggheads at CDC,…

There’s poking bears with sticks, and then there’s walking right up to the bear and trying to pull out one of its teeth with a set of rusty pliers. What a maroon.

The dude makes a big deal out of traveling to other places for mountain climbing and adventures. He never took the time to look this up? Jesus!

I, too, was talking about VAERS. It is a very sensitive but not very specific system. It is a hypothesis-generating system, but no conclusions should be made from them, at least not from public health policy makers. Furthermore, healthcare providers are not required to report to it (contrary to popular opinion), and…

The is increased surveillance for Guillain-Barré, which is what I think you mean by GB. This surveillance is because of Zika. A ton of doctors have been told what GB looks like, feels like, etc., because of Zika.

“That camera-toting motherf*cker...”

My money’s on Scott Perry from Pennsylvania’s 4th Congressional District.

Sorry, but I’m going to, at least, ask you to go back to the drawing board.

I’m an infectious disease epidemiologist and working on my DrPH in epidemiology at that university whose name rhymes with “Bob Hoskins.” Will you share your math with me? We might get a paper written out of it... If it is sound math, of course.

Remember Desiree Jennings? She was a Washington Racial Slur cheerleader back in 2009. She received the seasonal flu vaccine and then claimed that she got dystonia from it. (Source: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Desiree_Jennings)

Thanks, Beth. You saved me the effort of writing my yearly blog post on this. Every. Single. Year. When I was doing flu surveillance, I always got one email or letter from the public about what a sham the vaccine was supposed to be. Tell that to the Japanese. They took away the school requirement for the flu vaccine…

In defense of the orange sweat stain from that time Donald Trump’s father ate some cheetos and used a rag to clean himself up, he did say “that weighs,” so maybe he’s referring to the bed weighing 400 pounds?

Dude should look up the meaning of the word “inalienable.”

That’s soccer (or Washington vs Cleveland on the NFL) for you.

Weird. That’s how I got my seventh concussions. :-P

Whatever you need to tell yourself. I still remember it fondly.

Well, they were a university team. We were a bunch of guys who put together a team, hardly ever practiced, and went to pizza buffets after each game on Sundays.

True story: When I was in college, our soccer club team was challenged by the university’s women’s team. They were far better than us, but we decided it would be fun to do. Just to make it more interesting, and to f*ck with our heads, the ladies said that we would play skins vs. shirts, with the first team to allow a…

I play the long game.

What the ever-loving fuck?