Spain is a Dangerous Place?

Report on the economic decline with resulting loss of health care safety net resources in Spain.
You think it’s not possible in places that are equally committed to a national health system and equally economically shaky?
I would beg to differ–health care is a big burden for advanced care and profligacy is not without risk.
As Uncle Miltie said–no free lunch.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/charlemagne/2013/12/spains-health-care

Flu Vaccine in Pregnancy

A very low rate of vaccination in pregnancy is the result of the scaremongers. Many pregnant women are scared of medications and such during pregnancy however pregnant women are particularly susceptible to complications of Flu in pregnancy.
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Cosmic Rays are Cooler

Ever since I learned from Fred Singer that cosmic rays increase cloud cover and that’s why sunspots make things hotter, I thought, I am an astrophysicist? Right? That’s why this is important for aspiring astrophysicists.
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It's Over, Fat Lady Takes the Stage

What if I told you the warming panic movement had an empty tank? Was an empty shell?
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More on IED Vehicles

There is some sort of blinker effect when it comes to compressed natural gas. Since it always is compressed in tanks and in writing compressed with “green” or “clean” there is a blind spot that is silly.
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Look At Clouds from Both Sides Now

This admission certainly appears to be derivative of some kind of willful blindness.
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Good Old Carbon Dioxide

It was considered an important plant nutrient in 1923.
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/11/22/shock-news-100-years-ago-scientific-american-said-co2-was-not-a-pollutant/

UK Health System Insanity

UK National health Service (NHS) pays for aromatherapy and other alternative medical care services, but skimps on Cancer care?
Wonder why a financially strapped national single payer system would bother with junk science “alternative” therapies like aroma therapy? Follow the politics.
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CS Lewis on Scientism

CS Lewis and Aldous Huxley died on the same day as Kennedy. Bad day for us all.
Lewis was an Oxford Don in philosophy and literature, and he wrote insightfully on the pejorative term Scientism.
He could be a patron of Junk Science.com cause we disapprove of Scientism too.
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Pausing on the Pause in the Polar Regions

Here’s some great stuff on temp trends and the pause.
DOWN GOES the paper by Cowtan and Way. (Remember the iconic knockdown call from the Ali/Frazier battle?)
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Cocktail Hour Aspirin Better?

This report, commented on by our friends at American Council on Science and Health, reminds that a little bit of aspirin daily is heart attack prevention.
However aspirin effects on platelets aren’t 12 hour effects. Besides, Aspirin is a peak within 1 hour, 4 hour gone completely, drug.
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Follow up on the trans fat panic

So you might know the in depth inquiry on transfats, I dredged the archives of the genius, the Milloy.
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