Både om vaccin, logic, och misstro på veteskap

Helt sablars bra artiklar. Ni helt enkelt måste kika på dem.

Mycket om både vilken nytta vaccin har, om deras risker, värför vi tar dem.

Men ännu viktigare än det, diskussioner om värför det finns en sådan motståndskraftig och inbiten rörelse mot ny teknologi (t.ex. mobil-telefoni strålning och vaccin).

kolla den här i PLOS

och den helt sjukt bra artikeln i WIRED (dessutom med en stor dos debatt som praktiska exempel på vad juttun handlar om)

några snippar:

från plos "Offit blames the media for keeping the myth alive by following the “journalistic mantra of ‘balance,’ ” perpetually presenting two sides of an issue even when only one side is supported by the science. And shows like “Larry King Live” have been “just awful on this issue,” he adds, placing ratings and controversy above public health by repeatedly giving McCarthy and other “true believers” a platform to peddle fear and misinformation. But Offit also wishes scientists would do a better job of communicating theoretical risk and the difference between coincidence and causation. Once you raise the notion of a possibility of harm, he says, “it's hard for people to get that notion out of their head."

från WIRED

"In May, The New England Journal of Medicine laid the blame for clusters of disease outbreaks throughout the US squarely at the feet of declining vaccination rates, while nonprofit health care provider Kaiser Permanente reported that unvaccinated children were 23 times more likely to get pertussis, a highly contagious bacterial disease that causes violent coughing and is potentially lethal to infants. In the June issue of the journalPediatrics, Jason Glanz, an epidemiologist at Kaiser’s Institute for Health Research, revealed that the number of reported pertussis cases jumped from 1,000 in 1976 to 26,000 in 2004. A disease that vaccines made rare, in other words, is making a comeback. “This study helps dispel one of the commonly held beliefs among vaccine-refusing parents: that their children are not at risk for vaccine-preventable diseases,” Glanz says"

"The rejection of hard-won knowledge is by no means a new phenomenon. In 1905, French mathematician and scientist Henri Poincaré said that the willingness to embrace pseudo-science flourished because people “know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether illusion is not more consoling.”

Jag är ledsen om jag sårar någons känslor, men det skulle verkligen löna sig att använda logik! Det är en fruktansvärd synd och skam att vi i varje fall in finska skolor lär oss "debatt-teknik" m.m dvs konsten att vinna ett argument även om du har fel, (oberoende om du vet det eller ej).

Det är antagligen den största bristen vårt skolsystem har idag och det resulterar i att vår kära civilisation kommer att förbli relativt ocivilerad ännu en tid.