Desiree Jennings, a 25-year-old cheerleader, is blaming her flu shot for her recently-acquired neurological problem:

On August 23, 2009, I received a seasonal flu vaccine at a local grocery store that drastically, and potentially irreversibly, altered my future. In a matter of a few short weeks I lost the ability to walk, talk normally, and focus ( Read more... )

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Two guys at Duke University, post-doc Steve Stanton and neuroscientist Kevin LaBar, with a research told guys to spit in a cup during election night 2008 to measure their testosterone levels. They found that testosterone levels in men who voted for John McCain and Bob Barr dropped after the results were announced. lol:

Young men who voted for ( Read more... )

I've talked about a few things regarding vaccines in recent posts, but certainly not enough. With the flu season upon us and the threat of a deadly epidemic, disseminating information on the flu and the vaccines is more important than ever now and, more importantly, dispelling the myths about seasonal flu and swine flu vaccines ( Read more... )

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Wondering what to do this Halloween? Why not burn some arbitrarily-declared blasphemous material according to your incredibly bizarre version of religion, including other copies of your holy book! Yes, you heard me right!

Come to our Halloween book burning. We are burning Satan's bibles like the NIV, RSV, NKJV, TLB, NASB, NEV, NRSV, ASV, NWT, ( Read more... )

In an open letter questioning his logic on vaccinations, which utilizes elements of evolution to explain them, and on the "Big Pharma" conspiracy, which uses the same rhetoric as the 9/11 truthers he loves to deride. It's beautifully written and gets right to the point, like Shermer's writings are.

So, what do you have to say for yourself Bill?

My bookmarks tend to build up after a while:

• A new drug may help memory loss garnered from sleep deprivation:
  
  They found that the sleep-deprived rodents had a higher level of an enzyme called PDE4 than those left to sleep normally. In order to make sure that these increased levels of PDE4 were indeed behind the long-term memory loss they tested ( Read more... )

Reporters Without Borders have published their review of which countries in the world have the best freedom of the press based on information submitted by journalists on specific questionnaires. All of the Scandinavian countries, Ireland, Estonia, Switzerland, and Lithuania all sit in the top ten, but where's the US? Down at the number 20 slot. ( Read more... )

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John Boswell, the guy who did the Carl Sagan/Stephen Hawking singing video, has another awesome music video in The Symphony of Science -- but now with Richard Feynman, Bill Nye, and Neil deGrasse Tyson!

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YES FEYNMAN ON BONGOS.

"I think nature's imagination/Is so much greater than man's/She's never going to let us relax"

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BEST FOREIGN POLICY MOVE EVER:

In an apparent shift from the Bush administration's efforts to foster regime change in Iran by financing opposition groups, the Obama White House has all but dismantled the Iran Democracy Fund ( Read more... )