This coming week marks the 9th year since the Fukushima Dai Ichi nuclear disasters. I keep hearing that all the deaths due to nuclear power plants add up to just a 2 digit number. But it’s not that simple – the nuclear apologists try to understate the deaths and damage done. I don’t think that
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Why are Costco, Target, etc. running out of toilet paper? Are people using it for facemasks? Are they using it instead of kleenex? Very strange. Time Magazine has an article about how the US healthcare system is not good for preventing the Coronavirus epidemic. More than 150 cases of the coronavirus have been confirmed in
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This false claim is being spread around the Web by conspiracy theorists, one being David Icke. There has never been any evidence linking the two. Be aware that these articles use pseudoscientific terms that attempt to make the reader believe the claims are based in fact, but they’re not. Don’t be tempted to go over
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The problem with CoViD19 isn’t the ARDS (acute respiratory disease syndrome), it’s the inability of the health care system to respond to an overwhelming number of cases. It’s treatable *if* there are enough staff, facilities, equipment and supplies to treat every patient. You had better hope you catch it and get adequate treatment before the
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From FB group Orange Talk Comment on Thanksgiving Day “Don’t feed the homeless, it just enables them.” So let me get this straight: “Don’t enable them (homeless)” By not feeding them, they are going to go away? Go away to someone else’s neighborhood and steal to get something, like the kid’s bike, so they can
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Suggestion for project on FB group Arduino Projects – Sept 17 Automated Gallows! A motorized winch adjusts noose. Asks for three officials to each press confirmation button. Has an emergency abort button. Counts down 5, 4, 3, 2, 1… Pulls the trapdoor latch! Monitors heartrate until no sign for 5 minutes Lights up sign “Execution
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Whole article from https://web.archive.org/web/20140423082318/http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1010594 ***Begin quote***: “Perspective The Age-Old Struggle against the Antivaccinationists Gregory A. Poland, M.D., and Robert M. Jacobson, M.D. N Engl J Med 2011; 364:97-99January 13, 2011DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1010594 Share: ArticleReferencesCiting Articles (41) Since the introduction of the first vaccine, there has been opposition to vaccination. In the 19th century, despite clear evidence of
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There are constantly and totally exaggerated complaints about vaccines not being safe, and vaccination and its negative effects on people. I have written earlier blogs here and here about vaccines, and this blog may be thought of as another in the series about vaccines. Air Pollution I was watching TV and the program stated that
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I bought the book and the DVD combination from PBS. Right now I am reading the 500 page paperback, and I think it’s quite interesting. Later, the author takes the tobacco industry to task for selling a nicotine delivery method. What’s worse, the tobacco firms are now selling cigarettes in other countries and the people
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