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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

26 July - Late Links

What You Should Know About Meningococcal Disease & The Vaccine

by Barbara Loe Fisher

http://vaccineawakening.blogspot.com/2011/07/what-you-should-know-about.html
Today, pediatricians give American babies as many as 33 doses of 13 different vaccines by 12 months of age.1, 2 Now, federal public health officials are considering recommending that doctors give four more doses of a new vaccine – meningococcal vaccine – to babies between two and 12 months old3,4 in addition to the two doses children already get at 11 and 16 years old.5

There are big questions about the necessity, effectiveness, safety and cost of this new proposed change to the child vaccination schedule.

Natural Resources Defense Council
Disaster in the Gulf
One year after the worst oil spill in U.S. history, a sorry legacy of enduring damage, a people wronged and a region scarred remains. The BP oil rig that exploded killed 11 workers and spewed some 170 million gallons of toxic crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Whether we look to habitat and wildlife, employment and pay, or basic health and family welfare, the BP oil blowout has devastated the region. The people of the Gulf Coast still live with the disaster every day.

ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACTS ONE YEAR LATER

The BP Oil Disaster at One Year: A Straightforward Assessment of What We Know, What We Don't, and What Questions Need to be Answered
Report, posted April 20, 2011
Americans have the right to ask: are we any safer today? At the broadest level, the answer is no. Congress has failed to act on the lessons learned from the long chain of documented misjudgments, operational failings and oversight mistakes that led to the blowout. The oil industry, unbowed by a calamity of its own making, and its Washington allies are resisting reforms that would make drilling safer. And the administration has settled for half measures instead of the robust overhaul of safeguards it promised.

On Earth : the first 100 days

Project Camelot

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