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  Refusing Flu Shots? Maybe You're A 'Denialist' : NPR

  At the Ocean Charter School near Marina del Rey, Calif., 40 percent of the 2008 kindergarten class received vaccination exemptions. Author Michael Specter says the parents in this upscale enclave are prime examples of what he calls "denialism."

  Geoffrey Ames added 13 hours ago

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  NASA Launches Mission To Track Polar Ice By Plane : NPR

  NASA Launches Mission To Track Polar Ice By Plane A A October 30, 2009 Climate scientists are about to lose a NASA satellite that's been monitoring the Earth's polar ice caps since 2003. And a replacement won't be in orbit until at least 2015. The gap could have left scientists without ...

  Geoffrey Ames added 8 days ago

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  An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All | Magazine

  This isn’t a religious dispute, like the debate over creationism and intelligent design. It’s a challenge to traditional science that crosses party, class, and religious lines. It is partly a reaction to Big Pharma’s blunders and PR missteps, from Vioxx to illegal marketing ploys, which have ...

  JDP added 12 days ago

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  Ada E. Yonath - Interview

  "This is what gave me the courage, the north pole bears." Telephone interview with Ada E. Yonath immediately following the announcement of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 7 October 2009. The interview was recorded minutes after the announcement and the interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of ...

  Marcello Cividini added 3 weeks ago

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  BPS RESEARCH DIGEST: One nagging thing you still don't understand about yourself

  The email edition of the British Psychological Society's Research Digest has reached the milestone of its 150th issue. That's over 900 quality, peer-reviewed psychology journal articles digested since 2003. To mark the occasion, the Digest editor has invited some of the world's leading ...

  Calvin Smith added 4 weeks ago

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