We knew his science was bad, but in case you were wondering _why_ he was acting like such a tool, here’s an article explaining how Andrew Wakefield was planning on making money out of encouraging parents to make their kids vulnerable to disease.
Scum.

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Found via Slashdot, a BBC article explains how North Korea is light years ahead of the West in fruit juice technology:
The official news agency declared they have developed a super drink that has “no side effects”, “helps improve mental and retentive faculties by multiplying brain cells”, and prevents “geriatric diseases”.
Sounds like North Korea with soon [...]

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I try to live my life by the lessons I learn from movies. To wit, Buckaroo Banzai taught me, “Don’t be mean. We don’t have to mean. ‘Cause, remember: no matter where you go… there you are.”
But I found myself in the check-out line at the grocery store and I saw this… and, well–come on! [...]

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Coz posted this on her site first, but I wasn’t sure y’all would have seen it…

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The Health section of the LA Times on July 13th 2009 focused on aging and longevity. This article by Marnell Jameson is pretty interesting. There’s a little blurb about a bunch of the longevity gurus throughout the last century. The article is well written and lets some reasonable and skeptical doctors [...]

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Firstly, forgive any etiquette breaches or proto-ludditism.  This is the first ever blog I’ve tried to post on.
Two dear friends had a cat with some issues. This should have been obvious to anyone, as the dear little thing often ignored them. So what? you might think. They were concerned that pussy was “acting out” by [...]

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New Scientist has an opinion piece by a British chiropractor claiming to rebutt some of the recent attacks on chiropractic in the UK.  Its clearly labelled as an opinion piece, but NS should be ashamed of publishing it without commentary anyways.  I’ll summarise, shall I?
1) We’re not those old school chiropractics nutjobs; we do _different_ [...]

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Cory Doctorow’s post on BoingBoing.net links to this reprint of a Roald Dahl article begging people to protect their children by getting them vaccinated. Dahl had a child die from measles at a time before a reliable vaccine had been discovered.
Every voice speaking up for vaccination counts. Well done, Cory.

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David Henderson over at Econlog has an interesting analysis of a Wall Street Journal article about electronic cigarettes. Henderson focuses on the regulatory backlash from the FDA and anti-smoking groups.
From the journal article:
But e-cigarette companies say their product is a better alternative to cigarettes because there is no smoke or combustion involved. “Anybody who doesn’t [...]

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