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by hartror 16y ago
Some of the H1N1 vaccines contained Thimerosal none of them intended for pregnant women or children. Also the figure of 700% increase in miscarriages alone doesn't actually prove anything on its own, a virulent disease was also abroad at
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by hartror 16y ago
Right I will come right out and say what I implied in my full reply to the "dissenter". What they posted is hyperbol and unsupported hand-waving. None of what they posted is useful in making a decision one way or another on the subject. I c
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by hartror 16y ago
Absolutely, but once a child has left the normal cycle of immunization either the parents or the government need to make an effort to get them up to date. IMO this by and large won't happen without either policies in place or a large public
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by hartror 16y ago
I down voted because none of those links add to the debate in a useful manner. See my reply.
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by hartror 16y ago
May I suggest a couple of links to some in depth analysis of these studies by scientists in a form the layman can understand? Links about researchers stealing money from their university do not add to your cause as it has no bearing on whet
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BMJ calls Andrew Wakefield a fraud(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
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by hartror 16y ago
I get the impression that the tide has turned in the battle, and we should start seeing an improvement in vaccination rates over the next few years. Pity there will be a large lag as children who weren't immunized grow up and continue to ge
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by hartror 16y ago
The latest developments being reported are new. Previously the study had been found to be erroneous, it is now been decided parts of the study are outright fraudulent. There is a big difference between fraud and making mistakes. Mistakes in
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by hartror 16y ago
To ingest, use as cosmetics . . you name it they tried it. A long history of use is neither a sign of safety or efficacy, but try telling the non scientific public that.
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by hartror 16y ago
Probably because nothing discussed in the article is actually something her employers would be worried about. The whole secrecy seems to be there to add sexiness and authority to the article. In fact the way she and her personal work and va
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by hartror 16y ago
I didn't really set out with the goal of being an open-source contractor. It just sort of happened, like sex with a much-older neighbor. I can't help wondering if there is a story there!
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by hartror 16y ago
The engine is a big block of hard metal, not what you want between you and another car in a head on crash anyway. What the CTS does have that you do want in a head on is a nice long bonnet. This provides a nice big crumple zone in front wit
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by hartror 16y ago
Take a walk down Lygon st or Hardware Lane of an evening. All the maitre d's will vi for your business with the best deal. You play it cool and you can get 30%+ off the menu costs especially in a large group (Lygon St for groups, Hardware L
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by hartror 16y ago
Funnily enough Retroviruses are also the major vector in gene therapy.
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by hartror 16y ago
Just because they're auto-generated doesn't change the fact they're taking traffic that previously would have gone to another site and pointing at their pages.
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by hartror 16y ago
Neither are the bulk of astronomers, certainly their reaction to Roger Penrose's study was extremely skeptical.
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by hartror 16y ago
Not much use on earth given the length of the rail required to launch at a reasonable g force but very practical on the moon where there is a lot more space and a lot less gravity (and no atmosphere to speak of).
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by hartror 16y ago
I would not be surprised by a decent response to this, plenty of Anon got out of their parent's basements to the Co$ protests. This doesn't require leaving the computer, a far easier proposition for most I would expect.
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by hartror 16y ago
I hate PC revisionists. This is a book from the 1930s and as such there are aspects of the book that don't reflect the mores of today's society. However this will be obvious to its high school student readers and don't need to be "protected
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by hartror 16y ago
There is some moral ambiguity here, SHOULD this sort of thing be done? Can one in good conscience build and maintain a service that at it's core is about circumventing laws designed to save lives? I am not condemning this and there are a lo
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by hartror 16y ago
http is down but https is still up, so payments still work. https://www.paypal.com
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by hartror 16y ago
Neat, though you will want to be careful not to fall foul of the law but they're pretty liberal in the US right now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_detector#Legality
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by hartror 16y ago
To be fair to NASA, Constellation was a human space flight program with the ultimate aim of leaving LEO (Low Earth Orbit) so it is a bit of an apples and oranges comparison. I am not however excusing the Constellation program, it is a sad c
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by hartror 16y ago
Could be my preference in writing style or familiarity with the author or both.
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by hartror 16y ago
Some better (IMO) write ups on the scientific controversy: * http://www.slate.com/id/2276919/ * http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2010/12/07/and-the-sk... Also the original discussions on the news: * http://news.ycombinator.com/it
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by hartror 16y ago
You sound just like Doc in Back to the Future (he was talking about Japan however). This little tidbit points to the problem. just as America's current supply of brilliant scientists and engineers retires, without adequate replacement by a
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by hartror 16y ago
Yeah was listening to NPR talk about it and the two problems they're trying to deal with is fixing the problem that causes the faulty notes and sorting the faulty notes for the good ones so the good ones can be used.
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by hartror 16y ago
Infinite recursion!
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by hartror 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1973961
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by hartror 16y ago
Another HN discussion on this news: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1962846 And more HN discussion and a excellent write up by PZ here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1963990 Also a write up by Bad Astronomy http://blogs.disco

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