A nice summary about the current anti vaccine movement, some interesting info.
Did you know that the most likely anti vaccine people are affluent and well educated?
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Month: March 2014
EPA Irritates me Again
Here’s another story about expanding the Clean Water Act to make EPA the model of bone headed agency tyranny.
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Dearborn MI Debate on Jobs v Air Quality
This is a good example of how Michigan people have become enemies of progress and industry.
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Maybe People are Wising up on Climate?
The Milloy feeds me this.
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The Sky is Really REALLY Warming–It's one minute to midnight
What can I say, remember the rule–argue the law or the facts, when they don’t go your way, pound the table.
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More on Reading
Ran into a little headwind when I said phonics beats Look Say, but this is also worth a look.
Teaching reading is cumulative–I agree.
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Energy and the Grid
Paul Dreissen and Roger Bezdek on the current grid and energy problems.
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VDH speaks to Techie Advances
I don’t have an I phone or a new jazzy I pad.
I also understand the concepts of inductive and deductive reasoning and somewhat less well discussed but frequently used method of abductive reasoning (inference of the best possible explanation by means of incomplete evidence).
In fact I do believe I have a very good tool in abductive reasoning that is too much neglected–there are many uncertainties in life and scientific inquiry. We cannot be present to confirm every piece of evidence we might consider important to prove up an hypothesis.
But I digress. Here Victor discusses the problem of knowledge versus wisdom.
Yesterday another old doc and I, faculty for a residency that is supposed to teach new docs old tricks (think about that a minute).
We were ruminating on how we can teach the art of medicine–in fact–what is the art of being a good diagnostician/therapist/procedurist. What are the magic secrets and tricks and mental strategies that should be taught? How can we short cut to wisdom?
Is an I pad a way to wisdom or a way to the illusion of smarts?
Is there a shortcut to competence and mature wisdom?
We’ll get back to you on that one.
Here’s Victor:
http://www.nationalreview.com/node/373725/print
McCarthy Comments on the new Jobless Metrics
Make me froth, show me the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers.
Even a physician can smell a dead fish in the BLS BS.
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Note on Denier Issue
Joe Bast says, I hadn’t seen this before… wow.
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Russia on a Roll Against Enviro West
Now let’s assume that the West was committed to piddle power from solar and wind and willing to shut up coal, even nuclear energy plants and compromise the grid or increase prices and decrease access, increasing dependence on Russian Natural Gas.
Imagine, to borrow from John Lennon the peacenik.
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UN Condemns Biofuels
Biofuels make no energy or even carbon sense, are not “renewables” in a sensible analysis, and compromise food supplies.
Thanks Charles Battig in AT linked below.
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