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Today I had the unusual experience of meeting up with 2 old friends I hadn’t seen in about a year. I was struck by the common bond these 2 friends had with their interaction with me. I recently posted a link to this article. It expresses my own belief that “when the Continue reading A Tale of Two Treatments
A Rinderpest epidemic in the 1900ies (image FAO). In the last few weeks and in the general indifference of media everywhere, the FAO has been celebrating an event of rather tremendous import: Rinderpest was officially declared eradicated, joining smallpox in the all too short list of such eradicated diseases. This Continue reading Good-bye Rinderpest! I’ve written previously about how difficult and also how important it is to apply critical thinking to parenting. There are myriad internal and external pressures to be a “perfect” parent, and the criteria for perfection varies across different social groups. Parents can bond or bicker over all kinds of emotionally-charged issues: how to Continue reading Social Status and Immunization Their aim is an end to abortion throughout the UK and they plan to make this happen through peaceful prayer. Their name is ’40Days For Life- London’ and their next campaign is kicking off in a weeks time in London. According to their website: “From March 9th 2011 – April 17th 2011 our community Continue reading Conversations with a British Pro-life protester If you haven’t seen my other posts on abuse, please look here and here. It is difficult to convey to those on the outside of an abusive relationship how very difficult it is to escape. One major reason why it is difficult to escape is because of all the decisions that have to be Continue reading Making Choices to Save Your Life A group of anti-vaxxers fell hook, line and sinker for a very fake graph. Here’s where a lack of critical thinking could get Continue reading Anti-Vaxx, Anti-Critical Thinking Reproductive Rights are again causing flare ups on the horizons of the internet. Pro-Life groups are pushing as hard as ever to eliminate clinics which provide abortions. Just today, the story that has sent out its shocking waves is South Dakota Moves To Legalize Killing Abortion Providers. Essentially, SD has rewritten a clarification that was Continue reading South Dakota’s Under-handed Trick? Although I’ve written on my own site about the case of Penelope Dingle before – it being a case from my home town and since her husband, Peter Dingle, was a regular figure in schools due to his health lectures – I had lost track of when the eventual findings would be Continue reading The Sad Saga Of Penelope Dingle Concludes – The ‘Vulnerable’ Prey Of Complementary And Alternative Medicine Gardasil has been cropping up recently on anti-vax sites and may indicate a shifting of the goalposts. Continue reading On Gardasil and Goalposts I have researched the links between body image, mass media, dieting, eating disorders, and body dissatisfaction for many years. I first became interested in the topic after reading Naomi Wolf’s best-seller The Beauty Myth, in which Wolf claimed that images of thin women in the mass media caused, or at least contributed to, eating disorders Continue reading A Closer Look at the Famous Fiji “TV Causes Anorexia” Study |
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