The President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, has speculated today that putting sugar back in to coke, instead of high fructose corn syrup, may in fact cure cases of autism. The President raised this point as part... Read More ›
Vaccines
You probably thought measles was a thing of the past. Along with Mumps, Rubella, Polio, Chickenpox and Heptatis B, kids are required to be vaccinated for it as a requirement of going to school. (So the little disease spreaders don’t act as disease vectors, which parents and teacher s know they do.) We hardly see […]
Hello again from our current public health clusterfuck, in which COVID infections continue to rise...
History repeats itself, the first time as hope, the second time as dread. In a preface to the 2002 reissue of her classic work on the fear of bodily pollution, first published in 1966, the anthropologist Mary Douglas wrote: When I was writing Purity and Danger I had no idea that soon the fear of […]
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