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A new paper published in Eurosurveillance shows that a recent Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak was ignited by someone who is "fully vaccinated." Even though 96 percent of those [...]

One in five Americans now say theyre anti-vaxxers. As resistance expands beyond COVID, health experts call the potential impact extremely concerning.

The purge of hospital workers with natural immunity is now under way, with The Epoch Times reporting that a large New York health care system has fired 1,400 employees for refusing to be injected [...]

Tennessee Shakespeare Company today announced its 14th performance season celebrating inspiration and invention with a regional premiere, the return of the Southern Literary Salon Series, a first-time Shakespeare play for Memphis, and theatre's ode to the greatest manifestation of love: sacrifice. 

By oracknows on April 4, 2017. Last week, I took note of something that antivaxers hadnt done in nine years, specifically a "march on Washington." Back in 2008, Jenny McCarthy and her then-boyfriend Jim Carrey led a rag tag rogues gallery of antivaccine activists on a march and rally that they called "Green Our Vaccines." The name of the rally, of course, derived from a common trope beloved of antivaccine activists that I like to refer to as the "toxin gambit." Its basically a ...

During a 2020 when little if any live theater happened, New London-based Flock Theatre did manage a short, four-day stint presenting a play last

By oracknows on January 4, 2016. One of the stories dominating my blogging in 2015 was a manufactroversy that started in August 2014 when, after several months of rumbling in the antivaccine crankosphere that there was a CDC scientist ready to blow the whistle on an alleged coverup of evidence that vaccines cause autism, Andrew Wakefield, ever the publicity hog, released a video entitled CDC Whistleblower Revealed, in which he claimed that he had evidence of a "high level decep...

By Yvette (not verified) on 30 Jul 2015 #permalink I wonder if one thing these conspiracy theories supply is some excitement to jazz up the rather boring lives of these people? Like living inside a novel, an adventure story, though some side of the brain must believe that, really, one is quite safe. Otherwise theyd do something genuinely adventurous, like join Doctors Without Borders. Here they can get their emotional high without any real risk of being shot. By Kathy (not verified) on 30 Jul 2...

I would like to see Mr. Bigtree explain why that makes it especially important. I mean, if the CDC cant be trusted, arent studies they didnt find or make even more important? By Dorit Reiss (not verified) on 25 May 2016 #permalink Wow. I thought morbidity and mortality rates are actually different, and its the morbidity rates of measles that went down once the MMR is administered. Im not studying medicine, but I do recall how important it was to distinguish between morbidity (occurrence) and m...

It’s also the story of how the first European to discover Australia named it New Zealand while thinking he was in Papua New Guinea the whole time. Willem Janszoon was an officer of the Dutch East India Company, stationed in Java, Indonesia, in the early 1600s. He was put in charge of a mission sent to the island to explore further in 1605, searching for more resources the company could exploit. He was especially keen on finding gold. Wiki The course of Janszoon’s expedition to Austral...