October 2009
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Consumed - Boxers, Not Briefs - NYTimes.com →
How Chris Isenberg and No Mas became a Muhammad Ali licensee.
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WIRED: An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents... →
This piece by Wired’s Amy Wallace examines the fear parents have of early-life vaccinations and the possible link to autism.
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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...
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The Atlantic Online: Does the Vaccine Matter? →
From The Atlantic’s Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer, an examination of the effectiveness of vaccination as a method to fight the flu virus.
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Whether this season’s swine flu turns out to be deadly or mild, most experts agree that it’s only a matter of time before we’re hit by a truly devastating flu pandemic—one that might kill more people worldwide than have died of the plague...
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