The above is taken from a BBC news report on a BMA report which suggests that doctors should encourage parents to vaccinate their children, and which says that vaccination “is the safest and most effective way of preventing infectious diseases”.
Why are the BBC still providing links, and directing parents, to an anti-vaccine website which promotes [...]
Sunder Katwala, secretary-general of the Fabian Society, has a post up at Liberal Conspiracy concerning MMR vaccination, and possible mechanisms for increasing uptake. One of the mechanisms put forward, by Mary Creagh MP, is:
She also proposes making MMR catch-up sessions for five year olds standard in every part of the country before they start school, [...]
So now we know. According to Cherie Blair, who has exposed her susceptibility to woo by using crystal therapy, Leo Blair did have the MMR jab:
In early December the Daily Mail ratcheted up its attacks on me. They demanded to know whether [Leo] had had the MMR vaccine. “Come Clean, Cherie†was the headline. The [...]
Just testing Podpress. Risk-benefit discussion from American Cliche.
I’ve just updated to Wordpress 2.5.1. Glitches may occur, though it looks nice at this end.
Behind the scenes at Black Triangle lies a well-oiled system
UPDATE: I’ve also changed templates (although this one requires some customisation). Comments on the new template and how the old template was better, and how people shouldn’t muck about [...]
When science is politicized, when the truth is subjugated by ideology, it’s worse than wrong — it’s dangerous. Ending the war on science and once again valuing the ever-skeptical but always hopeful scientific enterprise is about more than our economy. It’s about more than our security. It is about our democracy.
Hillary Clinton, 2007.
Today I visited the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, lots of nice things there. Like dinosaurs, Charles Darwin and Newton’s Apple. Rest of photographs here.
In February, a friend and I nipped up Cnicht in North Wales, also known as the Welsh Matterhorn. I’d never done it before, and we had picked a great day. It was lovely and warm, but the ground was hard frozen, thus allowing fast progress over normally boggy areas. We also walked up Moelwyn Mawr, [...]
