My kid got six vaccines in one day, and he regressed. Would i rather have the measles versus autism . Well sign up for the measles. Despite numerous scientific studies that say vaccines are safe, public concern persists. The result outbreaks ofr a gen we are not living in a bubble. Its just a matter of time before someone brings that disease into our community. As Public Health officials struggle to communicate with a skeptical public, they face a radically changed social media environment where youtube videos spread virally across the internet. A regular flu shot gone horribly wrong. These people were much more likely to believe something they had seen on youtube than the centers for Disease Control and the fda. Thats a little frightening. Tonight, frontline reports on the science and politics of the bitter vaccine war. Frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporatir public broadcasting. Major funding is provided
Provinces. They give me a better feel, and actually get a better feel than the embassy gets. Whether our government will be able to continue working with them, i dont know. Its going to be the difficulty of getting out there. Ch and thats a serious problem. Thats why i so much encourage, you know, helping the ngos in afghanistan, whether its on oversight or green issues, health issues. Because theyre the ones with the eyes and ears. Theyre out there. Theyre community based. Thats what were going to have to rely on. And were toying with an idea to yutz the ngos. To be our eyes and ears to monitor programs. Thats more difficult. Tths not the gold standard. We have to, who is watching the watchdogs . Who is going to watch the people, you know. So thats a whole process that we have to do. We have to deal with the ngos. We cant forget them. We cannot forget an independent press. Let me just be clear here. The reason the reason chicago organized crime and the al capons and the mafias did not
Benefits when it is not identified we can learn a lot about climate change. There are different types of contexts in which the data is collected to make a difference and could have different rules. As for the kind of massive quantity of data that is used for medical research is probably going to be pretty well identified in most cases. Much well identified an and are used for other purposes like marketing. You actually need to know about more about the individuals for it to be possible to do the medical research. But thats the world in which there are there is not only the wall regarding how the data is to be handled, but the governance models like Institutional Research boards and a multithousand year history of culture of confidentiality regarding the information. So the rules in that world are stronger already whereas in the marketing context there arent very many rules and you even would want to be looking at what is the ultimate purpose here and how does that stack up against usin
Dollars. From the American Enterprise institute, this is just over an hour. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. Im arthur brooks, president of the American Enterprise institute. And were delighted to welcome all of you today to this event, entitled poverty to prosperity. So, this is bill gates. Thank you. With his wife, melinda, hes the cochair and cofounder of americas largest private foundation, the bill and Melinda Gates foundation. They work to reduce poverty and expand health care overseas and to improve education here in the United States among other things. Previously, he was the chairman and ceo of microsoft, the Worlds Largest software company, which he cofounded in 1973. Most importantly, like me, hes a native of seattle and somewhat of a seahawks fan, which is good. But thats not what were here to talk about. Were here to talk about his incredibly important work with the foundation, the work that hes doing here and around the world. He shares so many of the priorities of th
Editorinchief, james bennet. Thank you, commissioner, for being with us today. [applause] i thought id open with a familiar, oftrepeated statistic that i thought i should repeat again. Youll correct me if i have it wrong. In 1990, there were 2,245 homicide in the city of new york, which i think was the record mark. And last year there were 333 homicides in the city of new york. Though the population had grown by a Million People in the meantime, and there are however many millions more visitors to the city every year. I can remember what the social implications of that statistic were for neighborhoods across the city in the early 90s, and the transformation is nothing short of astonishing. You arrived in new york to lead the Transit Police this 1990. In 1990. And while there are no doubt many factors that explain the decrease, the source of strategies and tactics you put in place from aggressively implementing the broken windows philosophy to pursuing datadriven methods of policing are