Well, I signed up for Skepticamp CO. It was last weekend up in the foothills. I even got in my car and drove for a damn hour. I got to the parking place, sat in my car for a few minutes, and turned around and went home. Maybe next year I’ll actually go inside.
Today, March 24, has been designated Ada Lovelace Day. Last month or so I pledged to help celebrate women’s contributions to technology and science. This week…we’ve had a visit from my mum and dad, who drove out from the Frozen Tundra to, apparently, bring us a couple feet of snow or so. I’ve had trouble [...]
School Girl decided to enter the school science fair this year. For kids in grades K-2 (yes, really), the project isn’t as important as the thought behind the project. Teaching children about the scientific method is more important. Which struck me as a wonderful thing, and a good reason to encourage her to do this [...]
Because children can die from things like whooping cough (pertussis). True, 4 weeks is too young for immunizations; IIRC, the first round of vaccines are around 2 months of age or so (then again, I was suffering from sleep deprivation at the time, so my memories are a teeny bit fuzzy). However, any adults (parents, [...]
Ever want an overview of the antivaccination movement? Here you go. Dr. David Gorski lays it all out, from Jenny McCarthy’s grandstanding to Andrew Wakefield…well, apparently just making stuff up, to the Special Masters judgements (the special Vaccination Compensation courts set up by the US to determine compensations for claims against vaccines and their manufacturers) [...]
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